Even those paragons of open government, Iran, Afghanistan and Mongolia, held televised election debates last year.Now that Britain has taken the plunge, the question is whether the debates will enlighten voters much.
Sixty years after it opened, it is both a paragon of globalized public health and a health care anachronism, where strangers live together for months with boredom, pills, pain, contemplation and the same ancient disease that killed George Orwell, Franz Kafka and Eleanor Roosevelt.
But while Damon's Mark Watney in "The Martian," opening Oct. 2, is a true paragon of humanity, maintaining his wry sense of humor and MacGyver-style resourcefulness in the face of impossible odds, Damon himself isn't superhuman.
When the new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, it was heralded as a paragon of sports technology.
By Ian Crouch May 23 , 2011When the new Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, it was heralded as a paragon of sports technology.
Minecraft's open world of 3-D blocks resembles a Lego world, with Lego being the paragon of the virtuous toy.
His socialist sympathies certainly made no difference to Microsoft, a paragon of capitalism, when it recruited him to set up a corporate research lab in Cambridge, which opened in 1997.
Since Mr. Wang relinquished his chairmanship, Mr. Kumar has sought to position Computer Associates as a paragon of Sarbanes-Oxley-era corporate rectitude: governed by no-nonsense independent directors, easy to do business with, and decidedly open to investor suggestions.
Displays detail everything from how to build a sash window, to the most fashionable wallpapers of 18th-century society (The Vineyards, Paragon; open 9 Feb–24 Nov; 2pm 5pm Tue–Fri, weekends 10.30am 5pm; £5 admission).
The paragon of nitwittery?
