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...Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman Khan his Tussaud's debut in January. But a dip in popularity can see figures hustled off into...
...procedures, a Brown waxwork wouldn't be commissioned until after elections. (Brown inherited the job between elections, after Blair resigned.) A subsequent "significant swell of public support" for Brown triggered the request to Downing Street, says Lovett. That's a rare mismatch between Tussaud's own soundings and the wider world view, because opinion polls reflect no such swell - Labour, under Brown, has actually lost ground to the Tories...
...parents on Friday. Responding to a question about how the University was working to improve its engineering program—for many years an afterthought at Harvard—Faust said that a potential concentrator “would develop capacities both in engineering but will also understand a wider range of ways in which technology can affect society.” The announcement comes as the School’s founding dean, Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, prepares to step down after a decade of leading Harvard’s engineering programs. Venky said...
...their readers, these editors wrote, “We did not see this article before it ran. We felt the same shock and outrage that the rest of the campus felt when they read the opinion Monday afternoon.” Hopefully the new opinions policy will allow wider review of controversial content so that all reservations can be expressed before publication...
...agreement to double the number of weekly cross-border passenger flights. There are currently 12 flights a week on the state-owned national carriers connecting Delhi and Lahore and Mumbai and Karachi. The new deal will allow up to three airlines from each country to fly between a wider range of cities including, possibly, between the two capitals. The agreement, a joint statement said, will improve "people to people contact, business and trade activities." Business people on both sides of the border have long argued that trade and investment could ease tensions between the two states...