1 | Construction of the Parthenon was championed by Pericles, Athens's most popular elected politician. | |
2 | Moreover, Mr Obama's most coveted legislative aim, the creation of a sort of national health service, remains elusive. | |
3 | Washington could have used his military stature and his enormous popularity to become an autocrat; yet, he refused to do so. | |
4 | Asia is fully capable of producing a competent and prestigious secretary-general committed to multilateralism and broadly accepted by the international community. | |
5 | The lack of mergers and acquisitions - the much predicted new merger wave having failed to materialise - also owes something to the continuing uncertain economic outlook. |