Word: wizardly
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...company's fat days, Fastow earned a reputation as a money wizard who constructed the complex financial vehicles that Enron drove on the road to explosive growth. Skilling wanted an "asset-light" company that could rapidly exploit deregulating markets for energy, water, broadband capacity and anything else that could be traded. So beginning in 1993, Fastow created hundreds of "special-purpose entities" designed to transfer Enron's debt to an outside company and get it off the books--without giving up control of the assets that stood behind the debt...
...week's issue. Here you will find links to the pro and con sites in the debate over a national ID card; see where you can go to get your own framed Enron stock certificate (for a mere $60), and get the best places for continuing news on Washington Wizard Michael Jordan. At time.com/webguide...
...adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is bound to have a gravity about the awful task at hand. Jackson's film has that, but it is also a buoyant experience because the characters are lively and engaging--each actor (especially Wood as Frodo and McKellen as the wizard Gandalf) magically fitting his role--and because the production team put such skill and joy into designing a movie Middle Earth. The landscapes, a cunning mixture of computer images and real New Zealand, bestow a distinct and beguiling personality on each realm...
...heart, Tenenbaums is a tale of dreams deferred, faded genius and the redeeming value of family. The story begins with the union of Royal and Etheline Tenenbaum, parents to a trio of child geniuses: Chas, a child financial wizard who makes his fortune breeding dalmation mice; Richie “the Baumer” Tenenbaum, a teenage tennis champion; and Margot, a famous playwright who wins a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the fourth grade. But following Royal and Etheline’s separation, two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster erase all trace of the children?...
Nevertheless, there are a few things that put a slight damper on the production. First of all, fans of The Who may not embrace the production’s rendition of “Pinball Wizard.” Though there is nothing particularly wrong or lacking with the staging or singing of the number, the fact that The Who are not performing it, and that the orchestration is altered for the theatrical version, make it less than fulfilling...