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...today who his heroes were, he names two: Thomas Edison and Walt Disney. The former was a brilliant innovator and a horrid businessman, the latter a good innovator and a great businessman. It wasn't Disney's movies that impressed Bezos but his theme parks. He went to Disney World six times. "The thing that always amazed me was how powerful his vision was," Bezos says. "He knew exactly what he wanted to build and teamed up with a bunch of really smart people and built it. Everyone thought it wouldn't work, and he had to persuade the banks...
However, these faults are made tolerable because Tyrell has surrounded himself with some distinguished sidemen. Venerable trumpeters Clark Terry and the late "Sweets" Edison adorn "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" with raunchy and sweet touches, while Robbyn Kirmss acquits herself well with slightly tortured expressions on "The Very Thought of You." But while Tyrell's renditions are competent, intimate and become more endearing with time, there's nothing to make your heart, well, sing...
...that matter, but Hughes shouldn't think he was saved because of an astute Aborigine or some glitch in chaos theory. It is normal to fear death, but to mock others' faith when one's life has been spared is not only confusing, it's disgraceful. ADITYA SURENDRAN Edison...
Lewis and Clark, Einstein, Galileo, Edison and test pilots are risk takers, as are BASE jumpers and other devotees of extreme sports. But there is a crucial difference. Society gets no benefit from the latter group, who are solely concerned with selfish gratification. GILBERT STORK Englewood...
...refreshing candor, he told the Today show's Matt Lauer last Friday that the original idea for the manufacture of Venus and Serena came to him when he happened to see a woman win "$30 or $40 thousand" in a tennis tournament, "and she played four days!" Not Thomas Edison, not Alexander Graham Bell, not Bill Gates could have been more enthusiastically inspired...