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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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required reading - AND utterly captivating
Everyone seeking to understand the 20th century, its history, its politics, its scientific development, must read this book. Not only does it illuminate one of the foundational events of our time far better than any other source, it definitively sets forth modern science, its ethical dilemmas, its odd combination of unbelievable explanatory power and the utterly (humanly) unfathomable reality science suggests. Rhodes traces the development of the atomic bomb to its scientific roots, which he demonstrates are inextricably intertwined with the people pushing the scientific developments at an ever increasing speed and for a long time had no idea of the potential their theories carried. Rhodes manages to do all this with complete lucidity, allowing the reader totally unfamiliar with quantum mechanics to follow along with reasonable comprehension. At the same time, the psychological, ethical and political dramas Rhodes describes make this the hands-down most thrilling, most...
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December 16, 1999 (Elmhurst, IL USA) | Helpful Votes: 114 | Rating: 5

This Changes Everything
I will echo the other reviewers: this is one of the best, if not the best book I have read.The book covers the subect on a number of levels. First is the factual story of the events leading up to the making of the bomb, which in themselves would be fascinating. For example, the fact that in two years the Manhattan Project built an industrial plant larger than the US automobile manufacturing base. That only in December of 1938 was the fission of Uranium first discovered, but the course of events were so rapid as to lead to the Trinity test in July of 1945. As a sometime program manager, but no General Groves, it was a fascinating account of the world's most significant projecct.The second level is a very enjoyable history of nuclear physics as the reader is lead through the discovery process from the turn of the century to thermonuclear fusion. That discovery process is the vehicle for the third and fourth levels of the book. The stories and personalities of the...
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October 2, 2000 (Vienna, VA USA) | Helpful Votes: 65 | Rating: 5

Superb Historical Account Of Etiology of First Atomic Bomb!
One of the most admirable qualities of this truly marvelous work is its ability to paint the story of the creation of the first atomic weapon on the broadest possible canvas, reaching back into the bowels of history to trace, with the fidelity of a seismographic needle, the rise of both the specific intellectuals as well as the critical scientific mass to make the work not only conceivable, but possible. This is indeed a work that one reads repeatedly, for there is so much to digest within the pages of this masterwork as to defy any easy such description. So both the cast of involved personalities is long and incredibly interesting to witness as the author develops it, but then again, so is his description of the rise of theoretical physics through the work of Albert Einstein and his colleagues within the mostly European academic orbit in the first third of the twentieth century. In that sense, it is not strictly speaking, merely a detailed exposition dealing with what happened in New...
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January 8, 2004 (Temple, New Hampshire United States) | Helpful Votes: 31 | Rating: 5

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With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be.

In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb.

Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly—or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began merely as an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers—Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann—stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.

Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step-by-step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject. Top to learn more

If the first 270 pages of this book had been published separately, they would have made up a lively, insightful, beautifully written history of theoretical physics and the men and women who plumbed the mysteries of the atom. Along with the following 600 pages, they become a sweeping epic, filled with terror and pity, of the ultimate scientific quest: the development of the ultimate weapon. Rhodes is a peerless explainer of difficult concepts; he is even better at chronicling the personalities who made the discoveries that led to the Bomb. Niels Bohr dominates the first half of the book as J. Robert Oppenheimer does the second; both men were gifted philosophers of science as well as brilliant physicists. The central irony of this book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, is that the greatest minds of the century contributed to the greatest destructive force in history. Top to learn more

Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

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Far and Away one of the best books of the Year.
This book is a page-turner by any definition of the word. It arrived yesterday and I took it to the gym with me this afternoon with the intention of reading it for the hour I spend riding the exercise bike to nowhere. Two and a half hours later, I had to put it aside at the insistence of my leg muscles who made it clear that while I was enthralled with my book, my muscles had a different opinion. After dinner I read more until my eyes were too blurry to continue. This book is more interesting than fiction. In fact, the story might not be believable as fiction. Truth is definitely stranger than fact.It's amazing that a successful Hollywood Starlet--widely considered the most beautiful woman in the world at the time and who had been married to one of the world's most successful arms dealers could combine her talent for inventing things with the similar talents of George Antheil. He was an avant-garde composer of who had lived in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, and who...
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December 1, 2011 (Boston, MA) | Helpful Votes: 61 | Rating: 5

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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary invention based on the rapid switching of communications signals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would not have the digital comforts that we take for granted today.

Only a writer of Richard Rhodes’s caliber could do justice to this remarkable story. Unhappily married to a Nazi arms dealer, Lamarr fled to America at the start of World War II; she brought with her not only her theatrical talent but also a gift for technical innovation. An introduction to Antheil at a Hollywood dinner table culminated in a U.S. patent for a jam- proof radio guidance system for torpedoes—the unlikely duo’s gift to the U.S. war effort.

What other book brings together 1920s Paris, player pianos, Nazi weaponry, and digital wireless into one satisfying whole? In its juxtaposition of Hollywood glamour with the reality of a brutal war, Hedy’s Folly is a riveting book about unlikely amateur inventors collaborating to change the world. Top to learn more

Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2011: Hedwig (Hedy) Kiesler may be one of the greatest unsung heroes of twentieth century technological progress. An opportunistic Austrian immigrant driven by curiosity and a desire to make it as a Hollywood actress in the early years of World War II, Hedy worked with avant-garde composer George Antheil to create the technology that we depend upon today for cell phones and GPS: frequency hopping. Though Richard Rhodes presents details about everyone involved in the separate experiences that the two inventors drew upon to make their breakthrough in Hedy’s Folly, the invention itself takes center stage, driving the remarkable story with precision. Rhodes skillfully weaves together all the disparate parts of the story, from how Hedy learned about Nazi torpedoes to why George’s knowledge of player pianos was key to the invention, in order to create a highly readable genesis of the technology that influences billions of lives every day. --Malissa Kent Top to learn more

Hollywood beauty, wireless technology whiz
Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood star, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. She was also an inventor. These two disparate sounding facts would make anyone sit up and take notice. We are fortunate that a writer of the caliber of Richard Rhodes did notice. What he gives us is a fascinating account of Lamarr and her fellow inventor, musician George Antheil, as well as a host of other topics including evocative portraits of 1920s Vienna and Paris, insightful commentary on Hollywood and World War 2 and a crystal clear account of the technical details behind Lamarr and Antheil's key invention- spread-spectrum frequency hopping, a technique which can be used for jam-proof wireless communication in everything from submarine transmission to cell phones.As is the case with his other commanding works, Rhodes is most adept at creating sharp character portraits of the main protagonists and an evocative recreation of the times that they lived in. He also offers a...
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December 1, 2011 (Cambridge, MA USA) | Helpful Votes: 117 | Rating: 4

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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

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great documentary on the making of the a-bomb and its aftermath
I am a babyboomer, born in 1947 after World War II was over. But my father had worked at Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II and entered the nuclear filed after the war becoming a reactor theorist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. So the Manhattan Project and many of the physcists associated with it along woth the post-war movement for peaceful development of nuclear energy became a natural part of my life. This book tells the story about how men like Einstein, Szilard, Bohr the British scientists and British intelligence made discoveries about nuclear energy and the potential for nuclear chain reactions to recognize the potential for the development of a superbomb by the Nazis. After Einstein's letter to Rossevelt, cooperation between the US and Britian and the birth of the Manhattan Project began shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge and the research lab at Los Alamos became the key sites for the project. The book...
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March 25, 2008 (Holland PA) | Helpful Votes: 45 | Rating: 5

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The first collection ever of the writings and insights of the original creators of the atomic bomb, along with pieces by the most important historians and interpreters of the subject, is now in paperback.

Born out of a small research program begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people, including our foremost scientists and thinkers, and cost nearly $2 billion—and it was operated under a shroud of absolute secrecy. This groundbreaking collection of documents, essays, articles, and excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters, and the oral histories of key eyewitnesses is the freshest, most exhaustive exploration yet of the topic.

Compiled by experts at the Atomic Heritage Foundation, the book features first-hand material by Albert Einstein, Leslie Groves, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Richard Feynman, Niels Bohr, Henry Stimson, and many others.

Dozens of photographs depict key moments and significant figures, and concise explanatory material accompanies each selection. The project's aftermath and legacy are covered as well, making this the most comprehensive account of the birth of the atomic age.
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Note to self: In the future pay attention to the book description
When I added this book to my Christmas list I must have skimmed over the part about it being just a compilation of other writer's work. Upon receiving it, I anxiously opened the book looking forward to a story describing the history of the Manhattan Project. Instead, I found, a mildly disjointed compilation of excerpts from books, articles, and official reports. Honestly, I have nobody but myself to blame for not reading the book description. Having said that, I can't really recommend this book. I'm giving it three stars only because it does contain real factual information (it doesn't get more real than regurgitating other people's work). On the whole it was a boring read. The last section on the world after the bomb was particularly boorish in it's heavy emphasis on revisionist and apologist history on the use of the bomb against Japan.
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February 6, 2010 (Dallas, TX) | Helpful Votes: 30 | Rating: 3

A "Must Have" for Manhattan Project Buffs
The Manhattan Project is a wonderful compendium of personal accounts and anecdotes not readily available otherwise. The accounts come from people in all walks of Manhattan Project life. If you are a Manhattan Project buff, as I am, you'll be fascinated by the personal glimpses into the lives of military and civilian participants, their spouses and friends--and not just the famous scientists and military leaders. I have only one caveat: if your interest in the Manhattan Project is new, or you are not already familiar with the historical and scientific details of the Project, this book is not a good place to start--read Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." This book is a collage of little insights into the personal lives of the Project's participants; it is not a detailed, chronological military or scientific history. However, for those steeped in the Manhattan Project, it is a treasure.
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November 5, 2007 (Oak Ridge, TN) | Helpful Votes: 22 | Rating: 4

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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

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March 25, 2008 (Holland PA) | Helpful Votes: 45 | Rating: 5

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February 6, 2010 (Dallas, TX) | Helpful Votes: 30 | Rating: 3

November 5, 2007 (Oak Ridge, TN) | Helpful Votes: 22 | Rating: 4

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Assessing Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Practical Guide (Practical Intervention in the Schools)

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I Highly Recommend This Book
I attended a conference in Corpus Christi, Texas and had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Samuel Ortiz, and Dr. Hector Ochoa present on culturally and linguistically diverse students. I purchased the book when I returned home. It is an excellent resource that is clearly written, and has several tables and charts that can be adapted for use with school psychologists. I am coordinator of psychological services with a school district and this is a resource I rely on frequently. I highly recommend the text.
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March 18, 2006 (CA) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 5

Must read
This book is essential for anyone who assesses English Language Learners, including (and perhaps especially) those practitioners who come from the dominant culture and/or speak only English.
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May 30, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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This is the first book to present a practical, problem-solving approach with hands-on tools and techniques for assessing English-language learners and culturally diverse students from kindergarten to Grade 6. Meeting the crucial needs among practitioners and special educators working in today's schools, this resource contains research-based, step-by-step procedures for conducting effective interviews with students, parents, and teachers. Topics covered include:

* making the best use of interpreters
* addressing special issues in the pre-referral process
* conducting accurate, unbiased assessments of academic achievement, intellectual functioning, language proficiency, and acculturation.

Among the book's special features are reproducible worksheets, questionnaires, and checklists - including several in both English and Spanish - in a ready-to-use, large-size format.

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standard book
This book is not amazing or spectaculat but it's a must have. It has lots of essential information for school psychologists. My one complaint is that it focuses on language, especially Spanish. It does not focus on other cultures, just other languages.
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April 9, 2007 | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 4

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Rhodes:Life & Legend of Cecil Rhodes [VHS]

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As we now know it was, whether we like that or not.
So much has been written against white Rhodesia, it's history especially, that I was all the more curious about this series. I remember initially avoiding it when it played on our local PBS station. But I finally sat down and watched this series through in one sitting wondering at times the reasons for making this program. Cecil Rhodes as portrayed in the films came across unsympathetic; possessive, suspicious, power driven are a few of the adjectives I could attribute to this portrayal by actor Martin Shaw. But I was riveted at the same time. You see, this Rhodes was also charismatic, visionary, even messianic. And very determined to grasp and mold another country regardless of the costs even to himself. This film does show racial prejudice with all it's "warts" towards all non-English living in Rhodesia including the Dutch/Boers. It also captures the beauty of that part of Africa as all these people must have lived it. Vast and unspoiled places are so hard to envision in...
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February 17, 2003 (Cameron Park, California United States) | Helpful Votes: 12 | Rating: 5

"So much to do; so little time to do it"
I got this video out of interest in Martin Shaw's work, the actor who plays Cecil Rhodes in this video.The story is told as a series of extended flash-backs into Cecil Rhodes life starting with his arrival into Africa to work in the Kimberly diamond mines. For some inexplicable reason, the script uses a very painful plot vehicle for these flashbacks, namely a Russian princess who was apparently out to get Rhodes in later life for some unexplained reason. This character is painful to watch. Thankfully, she doesn't appear that much. Cecil Rhodes was a very charismatic person, famous for his charm, and Martin Shaw's performance is up to the task. He gives a riveting perfomance; he especially pulls off the emotional scenes quite well. The supporting cast performances are also generally excellent, especially I enjoyed Neil Pearson who is cast as Dr. Jameson. Interestingly, the morally upstanding characters are generally played rather woodenly thoughout, whereas the...
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October 18, 2004 (Seattle, WA USA) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 4

Rhodes - Bringing civilisation to 'The Dark Continent'?
Casting ex- professional Martin Shaw in the role of Cecil J. Rhodes, this 6 hour epic charts the story of Rhodes, his henchmen , adversaries, dealings, deceptions and attempts to realise his dream of claiming all the land from 'the Cape to Cairo' for Britain. All in the name of 'progress'.This well researched piece accurately captures the ruthless ways of life in the frontiers of a mineral rich Kimberley and charts Rhodes as a young man (wonderfully portrayed by newcommer and Shaw's son, Joe), who, faced with terminal illness sets out to realise his Imperialist dreams. The inluence and impact of Rhode's life on the shaping of the African continent was massive and he is the only man in history to have a country(Rhodesia) named after him. It was not until 1980 that Zimbabwe emerged as an independant nation, 78 years after Rhodes' death at 49. 'Rhodes' certainly bring to the forefront a great deal of controversy and poses many moral questions regarding Rhodes' methods...
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September 29, 1999 | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 4

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Rhodes

Bush is a occult Paedomorph, and the three occult constants are: Paedomorph, fiat and child sacrifice, which is why it’s time for an Oath keepers/Hutaree meld. Boasting skeptics like that one already worship two other gods, their Intellect and their Skepticism… *coughs* pride *coughs*. Proverbs 8:13 – The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. That’s a child’s disposition in the body of an adult, which I beleive this is their SSO protocol and how they attempt to convert reality, an occult constant by the way. Mary and Judas are matched by status, what connection to be understood by the reader is the Satan in the Garden of Eden is the same entity, Jesus, in Matthew. He’s child-like in his thinking AND appearance, and although he postures Christian, he practices occult worship of Lucifer. We’ve let child minded politicians run the fucking government, and far as they are concerned the Bill of Rights is a terrorist manifesto, because it stops their game. They want to blow up the Barbie Dool house and start over with a new collection of toys *(Waco-for entertainment by the way, Okalhoma City, 9/11, Deepwater Horizon, Fukushima ANAI). Jesus (magician-like), Judas and Mary Magdalena in Matthew. Good God, this crisis is being orchestrated by paedomorphs. This is a highly convoluted literature which bears absolutely no connection to reality, and Jews rightfully outright deny it. Bush knows this via his Masonic involvement, although this organization too is a convention of recent history (1590,... Current SSOs, particularly in the UK, appeal to Paedomorphs, because they are childlike in their thinking. The Masons were Paedomorphed in connection with their dealings with the British monarchy mid 1850, BTW. Uh, benchwarmer, Bush is Paedomorph.

There is also a large selection of tasty Greek wine — hard to find in the UK. because the Greeks drink so much of it and export so little. Our five-star Sentido Lindos Bay Resort, 45 minutes’ drive from Rhodes. The acropolis sits proudly on high ground because the ancient Greeks liked to. build their temples as near as possible to their gods. Desperate for a sunny spring break with affordable pampering, we chose a . Thomas Cook MyStyle package to the Greek island of Rhodes — where the. with culture and remains of the ancient world — its acropolis was built in. 300BC at the highest point of the town. But the joy of the hotel is its quiet situation by the beach, while the town. Visiting the acropolis is a great day out but sunscreen is a must because the. weathered site of the ancient temples offers no respite from the sunshine. Lovely Lindos, where we stayed, is a classic beach resort but is also packed. One restaurant worth a visit is Mavrikos, in the square next to the taxi rank. Lindos town is full of family-run. But the culture of Lindos doesn’t end with the acropolis. There are infrequent buses into town and it’s a steep walk to the bus stop so. we shared taxis with fellow guests. We also enjoyed the Tardis-like Church of Panagia, en route to the acropolis. Their traditional Greek food is served in a gorgeous setting of white.

Despite being less thematically appropriate for WWE’s Extreme Rules than Kane and Randy Orton banging each others’ heads on poles for ten minutes, the two of three falls match stipulation is an especially good one for Bryan as it allows him to... For the most part your best shot at becoming a top Diva are developing your skills at smiling and pointing ( Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres , 2007-late 2011), or getting good at teenage mean girl deceit and manipulation (Torres, late 2011-present, LayCool). AJ got the chance to tap into another one of those tropes by getting berated by Bryan and taking it out by beating on Natalya, who makes a poor heel as she is always so chipper, sweet, pretty, and says things like “Cool your jets, mister” to... If you are 13 and watching Smackdown now, chances are there are musicians who your parents didn’t listen to who you probably enjoy more, say, one of those bands from Nickelodeon and Disney Channel comedies that make piles of money on tour in real... And then Bryan demonstrated that emotionally abusing your ex-girlfriend in public still helps at getting you booed, at least a little.

Then, yesterday, the Irish bank that applied for the liquidation - Anglo Irish Bank Corporation - also asked the court for a sequestration order against Frank Gormley, the majority shareholder in West City and the man behind IrishSouth African... The Irish bank loaned West City money to develop Mandela Rhodes Place. The company that owns most of Mandela Rhodes Place, one of Cape Town's flagship developments, has been provisionally liquidated over a R219 million debt. It emerged last year that West City owned 62 of Mandela Rhodes Place's 180 apartments, as well as the commercial space and parking lot. In her judgment, Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso placed West City under provisional liquidation, dismissing Gormley's application for a business rescue plan in terms of the new Companies Act. His application for business rescue had been based on the idea that if the company's loan to the bank could be suspended for three to five years, it would be able to pay its creditors on a day-to-day basis. She found that while Gormley relied on certain valuations to show that the value of the company's properties exceeded its liabilities, on his own say-so, these values could only be achieved in three to five years' time.

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Saturday, 17 December must have been a strange old day for Andy Rhodes, the Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeping coach. Those afternoons when, after matches for St Johnstone and Airdrieonians, he would stay in his kit and lead his two young boys on to the
Rhodes Expects Portugal Will Need More EU, IMF Help

Apr. 3, 2012 - April 4 (Bloomberg) -- William Rhodes, chief executive officer of William Rhodes Global Advisors LLC, talks about the European debt crisis, and China's possible involvement in a solution.¶ He spoke yesterday with Bloomberg's Stephen
Why Stripping Cody Rhodes of the WWE Intercontinental Title Was the Wrong Move

But among the things that went wrong, striping Cody Rhodes of the Intercontinental Championship was near top of the list. Don't get me wrong—this is not a repudiation on Big Show, who is a very talented wrestler, especially for a big man.