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...With 300 stores in the U.K and 100 international outlets (all of them franchises) in Asia, Europe and Latin America, Topshop is looking to expand its reach further overseas. "There's no lack of demand," Green says. Even after opening its biggest international store in Stockholm, he says, Scandinavia still holds tremendous potential. But to grow much larger, Topshop will have to make some radical changes. Today, no matter where its smock dresses or miniskirts are stitched together - or where they're destined - everything passes through the U.K. "The existing franchising model and supply chain would not work for significant...
...even bigger one: democracy is not improving people's lives. In Bangladesh, among the most corrupt countries in the world, many were thrilled when the military seized power in January. By most accounts, Russians like how Vladimir Putin has ruled. And though Chávez is one of Latin America's least democratic leaders, he's also one of the most popular. In many countries that have embraced democracy since the cold war's end, free elections haven't reduced corruption, violence or poverty. When generals topple democratic governments or when autocrats like Putin or Chávez strangle them from within...
...kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth in college. Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf. Likewise, Shrek reimagines Puss in Boots as a Latin tomcat--but what kid today even reads Puss in Boots in the original...
...make the issue go away, and in the three years since, the question has also flared up in Spain, Italy, and now in a dramatic way, in Mexico. Such open talk of "excommunication" was hardly a recipe for a soft landing on Benedict's first trip to Latin America, home to half the world's billion Catholics. Still, the 80-year-old Pope tried to strike positive notes through the rest of the surprisingly freewheeling encounter with the 70 or so reporters on board. He broke into a smile when a Brazilian reporter wondered if the German Pope has overlooked...
...With the recent pro-choice legislation in Mexico, and calls for a referendum on the issue in Brazil, the question of abortion - long banned across the continent - quickly moved to the center of the Pope's arrival in Latin America. "Life is a gift. Life is not a threat," Benedict said on the plane. "The roots of this legislation lie in a certain selfishness on one hand and on the other hand a doubt about the value of life, about the beauty of life and also a doubt about the future. The Church must respond above all to these doubts...