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Boris Johnson, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, told a Bentonville crowd Wednesday he has a more "firm view of the afterlife" from attending the Heartland Summit there, comparing the town to "heaven, absolute heaven" after bicycling along trails there earlier that day.
While sponsorship models raise concerns about an imbalance of power, the managing director of the International Institute of New England notes: “For the most part, there’s been a lot of success stories.”