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...Clarkson is key to Top Gear 's on-air attitude, but he and Wilman are also crucial when it comes to squeezing cash out of the brand. The men work closely with Global Brands, the BBC Worldwide unit set up last year to exploit some of the broadcaster's most marketable shows. Merchandising spin-offs - from Top Gear-branded cakes to video games - need the pair's approval long before the goodies hit store shelves. And rather than pay Clarkson and Wilman out of the cash that comes from TV licenses, BBC Worldwide last year took a stake in Bedder...
...Metropolis,” originally indicating the “mother” city to which the hinterlands were bound in a filial relationship, contains within it the possibility of recognizing the mutual relationships which make the city and countryside an indissoluble political unit. If Obama truly is our first metropolitan president, then, let us hope that it is under this greater metropolitanism that he will orchestrate policy...
...status of forces agreement (SOFA) approved by Washington and the Iraqi cabinet, U.S. troop withdrawals will accelerate in the months ahead until all of the 150,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq will will be gone by New Year's Day 2012, leaving behind only a Marine guard unit of the type that protects U.S. embassies all over the world. Like kids getting set to take a roller coaster ride, the U.S. military is about to forfeit a lot of control over their fate in Iraq in the next three years. (See pictures of five years of U.S. troops...
...something fraudulent or involving corruption, the national pastime) is common in the top echelons. Recently, the very MPs implicated in defrauding the people of South Africa through an elaborate travel-voucher scam we call Travelgate (about 40 of them) voted to eliminate the country's most successful crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions. It was bizarrely ironic, even by our delinquent standards, because the Scorpions were the top cops who had brought charges against the Naughty 40 in the first place. Now we will never know what happened to all our millions. So just mosey on over...
...Relief,” Murphy said of his emotion after the game. REVERSAL OF FORTUNE Of the three phases of the game, special teams has consistently proven to be Harvard’s Achilles’ heel. But on Saturday, Penn was the one troubled by its kicking unit. “That was a huge part of the game, huge part of the field position game,” Murphy said. “We emphasized it all week, [Wynn] is a tremendous athlete, one of the better returners in the league. Overall probably our best day against...