Mullah Omar, as hypothetical cuckold, 138
Munro, Alice, as descriptive genie, 109
Murdoch, Rupert, as Berlusconi component, 118
Mussolini, Benito, pet octopus of, 113
Nestle, Marion, as nutritional realist, 125; on “liquid candy,” 125
Niskanen, William A., economist, as whiz kid, 28; as Starve the Beast skeptic, 28; as deficit Cassandra, 28
Nixon, Richard, alcohol abuse of, 46
Orwell, George, on emotional mechanics of sport, 135
Ovitz, Michael, tell-all nanny of, 104–108; Redford-related enthusiasm of, 104; Mickey Mouse anniversary gift of, 104
Owen, Wilfred, on insupportability of war, 50
Paul, apostle, relatively mundane qualities of, 119
Pelé, as homebody, 135
Pierce, Franklin, depression of, 46
Pinchot, Gifford, as “intrapreneur,” 84
Plato, as management theorist, 87
Poe, Edgar Allan, mysterious death of, 119
Popper, Karl, as falsifiability junkie, 82
Profumo, John, former British official, accepted ruin of, 138; good works of, 138; public silence of, 138; hair shirt of, 138; as anti-appeaser, 139
Proust, Marcel, sophistication of, 109
Putin, Vladimir, anti-hazing pleas of, 91
Reagan, Ronald, magical tax cuts of, 27; as disciplinarian, 27; political prestidigitation of, 27
Rice-Davies, Mandy, on extramarital shyness, 139; quotability of, 139
Romney, Mitt, as health-care pioneer, 44
Roosevelt, Theodore, bipolarity of, 46
Rosenior, Liam, English soccer player, as odd man out, 133
Rounds, Mike, South Dakota governor, abortion ban supported by, 58; plunging poll numbers of, 58
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, as management theorist, 86
Rove, Karl, Roe-related shyness of, 64
Schell, Theodore, broadband expert, on challenge of “last mile,” 130
Scott, Dred, abortion and, 57, 65
Scott, Lee, Wal-Mart CEO, health-care policies of, 38–44; mild-mannered aspect of, 40
Shakespeare, William, as management theorist, 86
Shaw, Maud, Kennedy nanny, genteel tell-all of, 106; Maltese childhood of, 106; Iranian sojourn of, 106
Simpson, Homer, as nude model, 139
Sinatra, Frank, osteopath of, 138
Socrates, merciful end of, 78
Speer, Albert, on effectiveness of Allied airpower, 98
Steinbrenner, George, as Berlusconi component, 118
Stern, Andy, SEIU chief, anti-Wal-Mart strategy of, 38–44; purple motif of, 38
Taft, William Howard, political drift of, 46; obesity of, 46; sleep apnea of, 46
Taylor, A. J. P., on English soccer exports, 133
Taylor, Elizabeth, osteopath of, 138
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, management guru, pig iron inspiration of, 80; on “large, powerful Hungarians,” 80; iffy methodology of, 80–82; foul mouth of, 81; endless successors of, 82–87
Trautmann, Bert, English soccer player, as German POW, 134; broken-neck heroics of, 134
Updike, John, unconvincing stoicism of, 114–115; tin ear of, 115–117; cultural illiteracy of, 115–117
Ward, Stephen, as osteopath, 138; as stealer of swimsuits, 138; suicide of, 138
Wilde, Oscar, idleness of, 118
Wilson, Woodrow, depression of, 46; anxiety of, 46; stroke of, 46
Winfrey, Oprah, as contrition-circuit staple, 138
Woolf, Virginia, epistolary righteousness of, 50–51
Zidane, Zinedine, French soccer player, sublimity of, 135