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I read this study in Time magazine when I was at Cornell, which is an Ivy League school, And there were people, including my mother, who never believed I would make it into an Ivy League school. Maybe Ginger, who I met in marching in the eighth grade. And the study said people had nice, sympathetic feelings about people who were adopted, and treated them better. So I made up this adoption story, and people *did* treat me better. And when I got a job, one of my professors told people at Ralston Purina that I was this amazing guy that had accomplished all this in spite of being adopted. And so it was really *other* people who spread the story, not me. Although I admit it was wrong to start it and everything, it was other people who kept it going, even the people at ADM
I read this study in Time magazine when I was at Cornell, which is an Ivy League school, And there were people, including my mother, who never believed I would make it into an Ivy League school. Maybe Ginger, who I met in marching in the eighth grade. And the study said people had nice, sympathetic feelings about people who were adopted, and treated them better. So I made up this adoption story, and people *did* treat me better. And when I got a job, one of my professors told people at Ralston Purina that I was this amazing guy that had accomplished all this in spite of being adopted. And so it was really *other* people who spread the story, not me. Although I admit it was wrong to start it and everything, it was other people who kept it going, even the people at ADM
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I read this study in TIME magazine when I was at Cornell
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There were people who never believed I would make it
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into an Ivy League school Maybe Ginger
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who I met in the 8th grade
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And the study said that people had nice sympathetic feelings
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about people who were adopted and treated them better
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So I made up this adoption story and people did treat me better
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When I got a job one of my professors told people at Ralston Purina
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I was this guy that had accomplished all of this in spite of being adopted
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So it was really other people who spread the story not me
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I admit it was wrong to start it it was other people who kept it going
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Even the people at ADM
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Movie Summary
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
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Mark Whitacre
