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...when he yanked his support after only seven months. As a result, Berlusconi has handed the League several top ministerial posts, and made regular visits to Bossi during his convalescence. Berlusconi may be even more eager to please potential allies since he's seen his own poll numbers dip. His alliance with U.S. President George W. Bush combined with the sluggish economy have pushed Berlusconi's ratings down to 43%, according to a Demos-Eurisko poll published last week in the left-leaning La Repubblica daily. The Prime Minister did make one enormously popular announcement last week: during a political...
...suspect that the biggest reason for the dip in enrollment is because of other courses taught at the same time. Larry Summers’ CORE course, Social Analysis 78, is one that a lot of students were forced to choose between. It meets on Mondays from 2:00-4:00, while my class meets on Monday and Wednesday 1:00-2:30,” Rodriguez wrote in an e-mail...
...past decade has seen increasing numbers of men pursuing a muscular body which, if not sculpted to Schwarzenegger proportions, would hopefully never land them the title of “girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese...
...store sales, excluding gasoline, fell 1.2% in the third quarter. Two months earlier, the company had declared a $72.5 million pretax loss for the first half - the first loss in its 135-year history. One of its food-and-retail competitors, Marks & Spencer, earlier this month reported a 6% dip in U.K. same-store sales for the third quarter, and warned that factors such as weak Christmas sales meant profits for the year could be as much as $140 million lower than analysts expected. French retail giant Carrefour has been slashing prices to regain market share after a brutal...
Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...