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Lately Buffett has become more than just a financial wizard. He waxes about the absurdity of cutting taxes for those who least need the money, and he can't figure out the wisdom in abolishing the inheritance tax, even though he probably has more skin in the game than anyone save Bill Gates. The Bushies, tired of his scolding, have tried to portray him as a crotchety Nebraska coot who has lost a step. The reality is that Buffett is simply a capitalist who genuinely believes our species is capable of reciprocal altruism. His number should be retired, his jersey...
...same popular Hero-worship that endows a shrewd financier with the halo of a gold-dispensing. Maecenas only too often gives a successful murderer all the attributes of a Nietzschean superman. And the American university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...
...Investigators claim the younger Tanzis helped divert as much as €400 million into private family accounts to try to salvage the tourism business run by Francesca. The founder's brother, Giovanni Tanzi, was also arrested last week, along with another four Parmalat officials. Enrico Bondi, a corporate bailout wizard installed by the Italian government, is trying to salvage the company. A Parmalat spokesman told TIME that a draft company-restructuring plan will be submitted this week. The Parma soccer team, once run by Stefano, is almost certainly destined for the chop...
...management style pays dividends. "The players say we're not on a 14-game winning streak," says Pats owner Robert Kraft. "We're on 14 one-game winning streaks. That's a reflection of Bill's attention to the task at hand." Wide receiver Dedric Ward calls Belichick "the wizard, a guy you never see but know he always has a hand in what's going on." Says a colleague: "He's thinking about the next game plan as soon as he's on the plane. Everyone else has to take a nap, or is all about a few cocktails...
Today Google is a highly unusual company, one run by true technologists with a genuine love of banging on things, shaking and breaking them, and making them better. Behind the simple, unassuming Google home page is a wizard's workshop of experimentation, much of it useless, some of it brilliant. "Invariably we try 10 things that don't quite work out in order to do one thing that's successful," says Page, who speaks in a slow, deeply nerdy, singsong voice. "And we learn a lot in doing the 10 things that didn't quite work." For example...