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...meantime, the U.S. government's insistence on enforcing its laws on foreign soil doesn't sit well with the Swiss. "The U.S. seems to prefer the role of an increasingly obnoxious tyrant," says Andy Sundberg, a retired businessman and founder of the Geneva-based American Citizens Abroad, an advocacy group for expatriate U.S. citizens. "It is obsessed with humiliating this small country, forcing it to betray the principles of its own constitution...
...Among the more innovative schemes is a program started by the business-to-business website Alibaba.com, which connects Chinese manufacturers with overseas customers. Last year the company's founder, Jack Ma, began to worry about the souring economy and its impact on Alibaba's 32 million members. "He told his lieutenants to all go out and figure out how to help our customers because there's a bad time coming," says John W. Spelich, Alibaba's vice president for international corporate affairs...
...allies, particularly Israel. One illustration replaces the Statue of Liberty's face with a satanic skull. Another down the block shows a black hand wearing the flags of the U.S. and Israel as wristbands and clutching a globe in its talons; the inscription, from the Islamic republic's founder, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, reads, "The United States is regarded as the most hated government in the world." The former Supreme Leader declares in other panels that the U.S. is "too weak to do anything" and refers to the U.S. government as a "dictatorship." In case the message has not gotten through...
Equmen, having tested the waters in England last winter, is taking its line of Core Precision Undershirts to stores in the U.S. I called Equmen co-founder Corie Chung and asked about her target audience. I noticed that in the company's promotional material, the models did not look like me. For one thing, they were models. For another, they were skinny models. "I have a massive gut," I overshared. (Watch TIME's video "A Girdle for Guys...
...timing of the attacks is one: they coincided with the anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder and Kim's dad, Kim Il Sung, an occasion you might reasonably expect the regime to celebrate with some long-distance shenanigans. And the regime is already embroiled in conflict with the U.S. over nukes and missiles; a hack attack would be just one more inflammatory act by a country that specializes in inflammatory actions...