Even at Veba, the most transparent and focused of the three, there is still plenty of conglomerate-style thinking.

ECONOMIST: German conglomerates

More than a few of the Blue Dogs who gave Pelosi her slight 220-215 margin in November will be looking at this next vote thinking there is a good chance they will be the next victim of a Scott Brown-style outsider campaign.

FORBES

Part of that expanded thinking comes with the re-emergence of burlesque, which has introduced a new generation to nightclub-style entertainment.

WSJ: Culture City: Don't Bury Cabaret Just Yet

Thinking Kinder was too much of a fuddy-duddy, too wedded to the fading pipeline business and lacking the swashbuckling style needed to run a company so clearly destined to remake the worlds of dealmaking and energy trading, they withheld the top job.

FORBES: Rich Kinder's Energy Kingdom

"He's the one who started thinking, 'Now we need to develop a style and a culture about us, '" said first-team coach Alan Curtis, who played in the Swansea team that shot from the bottom division to the top flight in the 1970s and 1980s.

WSJ: The Swans Are Soccer's Rare Birds