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Good luck. Corporate-name changes have a mixed history. Some adjustments seem logical, like when a company wants to dissociate itself with a negative trait. For example, Philip Morris switched to Altria in 2003 (of course, by now most people know that Altria is associated with cigarettes). Accenture was fortunate. In 2001, the company changed its name from Andersen Consulting right before the word Andersen, as in Arthur Andersen, became synonymous with cooking the books. Now when you think Accenture, you think Tiger Woods scandal. (Guess they're not so lucky after...
Suddenly the chants of “I believe that we will win” did not seem so ridiculous...
...notion of unfettered access to communications is so uncontroversial as to seem almost trite, but it is a revolutionary demand in countries such as Iran and China where it threatens the regimes' hold on power. That's the reason that one third of the world that has any access to internet sees a version censored by their governments. Declaring a kind of soft war on this new information curtain being drawn across the "new iconic infrastructure of our age", the U.S. is now committing itself to actively undermining censorship. In China, that means going up against some 50,000 government...
...Charlie teases James. He mocks James's fondness for chess with the put-down "Do I look like I play board games?" He calls his new partner "pard," which is intended to make fun of the dorkiness of people who call each other "pard," but instead just makes Charlie seem dorky. He tosses dead bodies down the world's largest spiral staircase while James hangs back, horrified, clutching an urn full of cocaine (which most people would have left in the car). Charlie also has a quickie with a prostitute, snorts some of said cocaine on the Eiffel Tower...
...While Washington and Beijing seem very much at odds just now, we shouldn't let their current state blind us to how intertwined they have become, nor to parallels between America's rise at the start of the last century and China's at the start of this one. Whether they like it or realize it, their relationship is truly one thing too big to fail...