Paul I shot to fame by defying the odds to predict eight successive games during the recent World Cup in South Africa, including Spain's 1-0 triumph against the Netherlands in the final.
Burlington Northern, Fort Worth, Texas, is viewed as one of the best-managed U.S. railroads, though recently it has underperformed its rivals and last month it cut its fourth-quarter forecast.
At the University of Washington, for example, in recent years, as many as one-quarter of the students found they were unable to get into a humanities course.
Even the recent round of mergers and acquisitions instigated by large firms such as Pfizer and Merck, followed by the requisite cost-cutting and sackings, has failed to fix what ails the industry.