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机遇偏爱精心准备的人 （发布时间： 2008-3-19 9:08:07　来自：） Les Brown and his twin brother were adopted by Mamie Brown, a kitchen worker and maid, shortly after their birth in a poverty-stricken Miami neighborhood.　　Because of his hyperactivity and nonstop jabber, Les was placed in special education classes for the learning disabled in grade school and throughout high school. Upon graduation, he became a city sanitation worker in Miami Beach. But he had a dream of being a disc jockey.　　At night he would take a transistor radio to bed where he listened to the local jive-talking deejays. He created an imaginary radio station in his tiny room with its torn vinyl flooring. A hairbrush served as his microphone as he practiced his patter, introducing records to his ghost listeners.　　His mother and brother could hear him through the thin walls and would shout at him to quit flapping his jaws and go to sleep. But Les didnt listen to them. He was wrapped up in his own world, living a dream.　　One day Les boldly went to the local radio station during his lunch break from mowing grass for the city. He got into the station managers office and told him he wanted to be a disc jockey.　　The manager eyed this disheveled young man in overalls and a straw hat and inquired, “Do you have any background in broadcasting?”　　Les replied, “No sir, I dont.”　　“Well, son, Im afraid we dont have a job for you then.”　　Les thanked him politely and left. The station manager assumed that he had seen the last of this young man. But he underestimated the depth of Les Browns commitment to his goal. You see, Les had a higher purpose than simply wanting to be a disc jockey. He wanted to buy a nicer house for his adoptive mother, whom he loved deeply. The disc jockey job was merely a step toward his goal.　　Mamie Brown had taught Les to pursue his dreams, so he felt sure that he would get a job at that radio station in spite of what the station manager had said.　　And so Les returned to the station every da