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Person of the Week OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE Silvio Berlusconi, head of an $11 billion empire with holdings in TV, publishing, retail banking and the AC Milan soccer club, is elected Italy's Prime Minister, overcoming the slings and arrows of a vitriolic press protesting widespread conflicts of interest...
...That's just California, right? If only. Most now agree that the Northeast too is vulnerable as folks flick on the AC. Some believe problems lurk even in the less densely populated Southwest and Midwest. Thus, a week shy of Memorial Day, many officials wish summer were already over...
...Sancton and Burke regularly team up to write about the spectacle that is Berlusconi, chronicling his tumultuous political campaigns as well as a business empire that ranges from TV networks to the AC Milan football club. Last week the two took a seat in the front row of the spectacle as Berlusconi prepared for May 13 elections that are likely to put him in the Prime Minister's office for a second time. Together they spoke with political experts and key aides to both Berlusconi and his main opponent, Francesco Rutelli, and, between campaign stops, with Rutelli himself. Later, Burke...
...also knowledgeable about the movie milieu, offering paragraph-long portraits of dozens of Bing's coworkers. The book ends with "Road to Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby and Sonny Tufts in blackface, one of the latest films to use minstrel racism in a contemporary setting), the priest pictures ("Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's") and the mature work of the mid-'50s, when Bing finally grew...
...stop drinking out of the toilet. They also might turn on the air conditioning when their owner leaves them in a hot car. Until evolution, there's the Chilly Dog, a car system with a preprogrammed temperature setting that automatically starts a car's engine and turns on the AC when things get too hot. The vehicle runs for a programmed period of time and then shuts off. The process repeats whenever the threshold temperature is reached...