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Pernod Ricard's task now is to goose Absolut sales. The vodka has come a long way since production began in 1879 in the southern Swedish town of Ahus. It remained a local brand for a century until 1979, when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Many countries shunned Russian products, including vodka. Absolut saw its chance to go international, and helped by what has become a memorable advertising campaign, it has never looked back...
...later that day. In the months that followed, the Road Hill House murder became a national obsession. It seemed to reveal some sick secret truth lurking in the hushed, upholstered heart of the Victorian household; Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the first English detective novel, is based on it. The task of solving the crime fell to one Jonathan Whicher, the son of a gardener and one of the original eight London policemen selected to join a new, élite unit of detectives headquartered at Scotland Yard. Kate Summerscale's THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER (Walker; 360 pages) is not just...
Their most welcome suggestion is to make small- and medium-size business a priority, and they take Latin America to task for doing less than 3% of the world's R&D spending while Asia accounts for more than a third of it. If more of the region's leaders had taken counsel like this a decade ago, Hugo Chávez and the Latin left might not have such a large, impoverished crowd to play to today. Whether or not this is the century of the Americas, these books offer a guide to how Latin America can enter...
...said that the city is not opposed to a possible deal at this point, although its approval would depend on Harvard’s plans for the land. “If Harvard has institutional uses for the property, they would have to vet it through the community and task force first,†Shumaker said. Harvard Allston Task Force Chairman Ray Mellone also said that it was too early to determine the impact that a possible deal would have on the Allston community. “It is entirely possible that Harvard will own every piece of land...
...against accusations of being an "out-of-touch elitist", Barack Obama faces a major overriding challenge in tonight's nationally televised debate with Hillary Clinton at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center - to prove that is a regular guy. Even under the best of circumstances that's not an easy task when you're standing on a stage before a packed auditorium of hundreds and being broadcast to millions. But considering the fallout he has had to endure since his notorious "bitter" comments about small-town America were revealed, and the fact that Obama has already had a hard time connecting...