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...think of those wide-brimmed hats that English women wear to the races at Ascot. The stated purpose of the canopy is to act as a vast, three-acre sunscreen, making the plaza a more inviting place to mingle even on hot summer days. The unstated purpose is to give an otherwise highly distilled structure an extra bit of geometric gee-wizardry. Which it does...
...many other humans. The company has recently made moves to find story lines and characters elsewhere, paying $4 billion to buy Marvel Entertainment merely to get access to some of its lesser superheroes. (The big ones, like Spider-Man, are already spoken for.) Comic-book characters can't give concerts or go to a meet-and-greet or record songs for Disney end credits. But at least Thor and Captain America won't be caught in compromising situations by a camera phone...
...give the calendar full credit. Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, purging all fear of a desk-side hangover. "That's a huge reason why we're throwing the party," says Amaya. "Let's just do it up." Recession-style, however: "Don't get me wrong, I'll be charging $5 at the door," says Amaya. "I need to get something back...
...that the Obama Administration badly needs - international support for harsher sanctions remains limited as long as Iran is ready to offer some form of cooperation. But in doing so while isolating the most hard-line among the Western powers, Tehran may be offering concessions that it's willing to give, while enjoying a personal poke at Sarkozy...
...There's clearly a concerted effort by sections of the party to give credit to Bo and make him more of a political rock star," says Beijing-based analyst Russell Leigh Moses. "He's popular among the younger generation, and to some extent is emblematic of new thinking and a new approach to politics...