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...with The Wizard of Oz, about a lonely girl and her flying house. The old guy alights in a wonderland, meets magical or malevolent animals and an old villain and is rejuvenated by the simple act of letting go of his obsession and caring for someone else. By the end of his adventure, he's a movie superhero, an older version of Indiana Jones. He also realizes that the small pleasures often trump the big thrills. Oz may provide death-defying fun, but what's the matter with Kansas...
...nonsense coach he is. Consider, for example, Step 5, which posits that many ideas fail to amount to much in the end because their creators don't bother to do any research on who else has already tried something similar and then what roadblocks they ran into. Ignoring the work of others, Sindell says, is a form of laziness hidden behind "the metaphor trap of 'not reinventing the wheel.' In reality, the wheel gets reinvented all the time because we need an almost infinite variety of wheels. The gear was a reinvention of the wheel, as was the pneumatic tire...
...With unemployment rising and house prices continuing to fall, Wells' unpleasant earnings news could persist past the end of the year. Bank examiners in the recent government stress tests estimated that Wells Fargo will have as much as $86 billion in loans that go unpaid over the next two years. The bank has already put aside some money to cushion that blow - $22 billion as of the end of March - and Wells would be able to tap another $24 billion of loss provision that it set up when it acquired Wachovia. But that still leaves another $40 billion in loan...
...commercial? Experts scratched their heads. "We're all kind of struggling with it," says automotive consultant Laurie Harbour-Felax. To Corker, the deal was an exercise in pain management. "I get the sense that they decided to kick the can down the road, maybe delay the end for another four or five years," he says. "And then if it fails, at least a foreign company owns...
...Critics say the bazaar-like atmosphere is hardly fitting. They note that the auction was court-ordered with the limited objective of reimbursing $405,000 in debt Marceau racked up at the end of his life to finance his shows. To ensure that sum is obtained, the auctioneers have set astonishingly low opening prices so everything will find a taker. (See pictures of Marceau...