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Director of Florida investment firm and adviser in Jeb's 1998 race. Her husband was Bush Sr.'s ambassador to Iceland...
...look at what a government can do if it really cares, visit Iceland...
From a high-rise office building just off a freeway in suburban Atlanta, for example, the eight virtual bosses of Popeyes last month orchestrated a restaurant opening in Iceland, designed a new outlet in Honduras and handled a chicken-supply crisis in Fairbanks, Alaska (which is so far from both the Atlanta headquarters and its vendors that it's treated like a foreign outpost...
...Reykjavik (pop. 170,000) does not exactly offer world-class attractions. Its main shopping street has more Chinese restaurants than chic boutiques, and everything is expensive (a beer in a club costs about $7). "We are not a country that offers high-class tourism," admits Oddny Oladottir of the Iceland Tourist Board. "But for people interested in nature and geology, you can see a lot of things in a small area...
...considered a necessity. "We're not trying to be Merchant-Ivory here," says Levin, "[but] Lara is as British as Bond, and the heritage is really important." In the film Jolie does nearly all her own stunts, which include bungee jumping, sword fighting, spear throwing, and even dogsledding in Iceland (which stood in for Siberia). "People say to me, You're a serious actress playing an action movie," she says. "But this is the hardest thing I've ever done...