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...shots appeal to a mass audience. Some of the stories on Lipstick and Cashmere are universal: both have had plots about juggling work with a son's birthday party. Others are less so: What to do when your nanny raids the good Bordeaux or writes a tell-all roman à clef about...
...Nonetheless, the vote comes as coinage has become tightly bound in questions of identity. The British government created an outcry recently with plans to remove Britannia, the female personification of the country since Roman times, from the 50-pence coin...
...thought about buying yourself an English Premier League soccer team over the past few years, the chances are you're wealthy - and foreign. Overseas investors have bagged seven of the country's top-flight teams in the last five years, from the $218 million that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich found for London club Chelsea in 2003, to the $1.4 billion shelled out for Manchester United a couple of years later by U.S. tycoon Malcolm Glazer (owner of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers). The investors' goal: to score a slice of the richest soccer league in the world. Buoyed...
...Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. Everyone knows that he lives in ancient Gaul, in a remote village on the Brittany coast surrounded - but never conquered - by the mighty Roman Empire. Asterix and his fellow Gauls were invented in 1959 when a new comic magazine, Pilote, commissioned René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo to create French characters able to resist the invasion of American comic strips...
...Even today, Asterix stories seem to chime with the country's discomfort with globalization as it rails at the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialism or Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Commentators refer to France's 'Asterix syndrome', a tendency to withdraw from the rest of the world, yet rejoice in splendid isolation...