And you couldn't help but think that the result wasn't terrible for Knicks fans, that as much as they came to see their team win, they'd wound up witnessing the other thing they'd hoped to witness, which was basketball's greatest player in his greatest basketball-playing prime.

WSJ: Jason Gay: The Rare Air of LeBron James

People thought he'd never last there, but Bobby V wound up thriving overseas.

WSJ: Bobby Valentine: Back to School��Jason Gay

"How he'd gone into the hills, how he wound up crossing the border I have no idea, but never in the year we've been in correspondence has he indicated any interest in covering Iran, " she told the Associated Press, adding that Mr Bauer did not speak Farsi.

BBC: Iran questions detained Americans

But when he rigged the truck's bell to sound more like a jazz cymbal, he wound up making more money that summer than he'd made teaching for nine months.

FORBES: Balancing Act

Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.

FORBES: Publish or Perish