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Those involved in the current debate about Summers’ leadership echo Tronto’s statement that the top-down governance model is of recent origin...
...athletes. Pepsi used to sell itself worldwide with the help of Michael Jackson and Madonna, but in current British commercials David Beckham is the star. "For most new U.S. brands in the past 10 to 15 years, it's remarkable how low-key they are about their country of origin. I can't remember a brand being launched that was proud to be American," says Simon Anholt, a British consultant and author of the recently published Brand America...
...only political superhero. Its protagonist’s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...Bhutan This Himalayan nation became the first to prohibit not only smoking in public, but also all sales of tobacco. In a kingdom with few smokers (owing in part to a local belief that traces the tobacco plant's origin to a she-devil), the black-market price of a pack of Marlboros has doubled, to $2.60, since the ban took effect in December...
General Superintendent for the BRI project, Victor M. Pereira said, “We are not sure what the origin was,” but added that he had heard the fire was possibly caused by a light bulb...