"Pick Yourself Up  Dust Yourself Off  Start All Over Again."   Nothing is more uniquely American than the sentiments in that song which served as mood music to Fred and Ginger’s fancy footwork in the 1936 movie Swing Time. Even during the depths of the Depression our enduring national knack for reinvention asserted itself. Whereas failure in many foreign lands is seen as a sort of scarlet letter -- BP Plc’s (NYSE:BP) wayward Tony Hayward was quite literally sent to Siberia for his sins at the helm of the oil giant in the Gulf of Mexico -- on this side of the Atlantic we welcome ...