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Silvio Berlusconi's government has turned the gaffe into something of an art form. Since taking office 13 months ago, the Prime Minister and his key officials have managed to make rude or politically incorrect remarks about everything from the euro to Islamic civilization. One of their baldest blunders came last week from Interior Minister Claudio Scajola, 54, who was pressured to resign after two newspaper reporters quoted him referring to Marco Biagi - a labor ministry adviser assassinated in March by the Red Brigades terrorist group - as a "pain in the ass." Scajola, under fire for not having provided Biagi...
...pliant Parliament. But a stone-broke Evans has lost her home. Thousands of Names have been wiped out financially. Some committed suicide. Even such notables as brokerage founders Charles Schwab and Dan Lufkin have been exposed to the loss of millions in what has been called the biggest and baldest swindle in history, perpetrated behind the clubby doors of the world's most respected insurance organization...
Allan A. Ryan Jr., the attorney representing Harvard in the case, immediately objected and called the reference "the baldest sort of hearsay." Ryan said he should have had the opportunity to cross-examine the scholar, Northwestern professor Philip Kotler...
...Ambassador William Tapley Bennett Jr. had informed Washington that Dominican authorities wanted U.S. help, that they could no longer guarantee the safety of American lives. In a much larger sense, the troops were there quite simply to prevent another Cuba in the Caribbean. What had happened, in its baldest terms, was an attempt by highly trained Castro-Communist agitators and their followers to turn an abortive comeback by a deposed Dominican President into a "war of national liberation...
Besides providing a substantial bulwark against specialization, this rule would help attain a related goal of the Doty Committee's with which we strongly agree; namely undergraduates need one hard, lab science. In the baldest terms, because of the explosion of scientific knowledge and its immeasurable effect on contemporary life, makes sense for the student to have, at the very least an acquaintance with the methods of laboratory sciences...