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...composed solely of fans of mountaineering, for it is far more than just a simple story about climbing. In this film, the mountain represents everything that is impossible and everything that man fears, and the movie’s central question—focusing on whether the heroes can conquer that fear— is therefore all the more captivating...
...trying to do with Iran and Syria today. By reaching out to both regimes simultaneously, he's making each anxious that the U.S. will cut a deal with the other, leaving it out in the cold. It's too soon to know whether Obama's game of divide and conquer will work, but by narrowing the post-9/11 struggle, he's gained the diplomatic flexibility to play the U.S.'s adversaries against each other rather than unifying them against...
Television would provide NBC with new realms to conquer. The company was an early adopter: it launched some of the first experimental transmissions from the antenna atop the Empire State Building in 1931, and it started regular broadcasts in New York City in 1939, debuting in time for the opening of the World's Fair. The company minted the first TV star in comedian Milton Berle, whose Texaco Star Theater became a hit in 1948 - the same year that the number of televisions in America crossed the 1 million mark. NBC started broadcasting in color in 1954; its famed peacock...
...influential Wall Street gurus. After the market started its 1990s bull run, though, Prechter seemed to lose his touch. In 1995 his book At the Crest of the Tidal Wave predicted the onset of a "great bear market." The bear arrived, but not for five years. In 2002's Conquer the Crash he predicted the onset of a "deflationary depression." Again, he was years early. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...trying to conquer new territory. But can Oprah still be the queen when she no longer has a throne...