Although pub culture still reigns supreme, Huddersfield has caught cosmopolitanism from its neighbours, Leeds and Manchester: there has recently been a wave of cool bars and cafes opening.
In today's Iran, the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is caught in a similar situation.
That a fatwa issued by Iran's supreme leader could get caught up in the tight net of filters cast over the Web by the Iranian authorities points up the difficulty of controlling certain types of speech while allowing others in an age of proliferating avenues for expression online.
When North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong Un was caught on camera taking a windswept whirl on an amusement park ride last week, there was one burning question on everyone's lips: Who's that guy in the light blue shirt?
Last month, Leonel Sandoval, the father of Governor Sandoval and also a Jalisco state supreme court justice, was caught on tape implying that the state electoral tribunal intended to illegally influence the elections in favor of the PRI.
If the supreme tool to catch trout is a five-weight bamboo flyrod, cast to rising fish sipping mayflies, then the perfect tackle for perch, crappies, bluegills and other panfish is the diminutive jigglestick -- ideal for lowering tiny jigs through holes on frozen ponds and lakes.
He regards himself as "a clever impostor", a peddler of "feel-good penny dreadfuls" depicting "people caught by the supreme joke of modern life".
As he explains early on, "my characters were a motley but loveable bunch, people caught in the supreme joke of modern life who were forced to survive by making families of their friends.
It tells of a popular San Franciscan storyteller, Gabriel, who made his name through "grabby little armchair yarns... My characters were a motley but lovable bunch, people caught in the supreme joke of modern life who were forced to survive by making families of their friends" - which, in self-deprecating fashion, pretty much sums up the Tales series.
But his basic point remains: since in his view the statue itself was Greek, the noble simplicity and quiet grandeur of the Greek soul inevitably manifests itself and elevates these figures caught in a moment of supreme suffering to the highest level of beauty.
