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...then the sun will have shrunk to a white dwarf, giving little light and even less heat to whatever is left of Earth, and entered a long, lingering death that could last 100 trillion years--or a thousand times longer than the cosmos has existed to date. The same will happen to most other stars, although a few will end their lives as blazing supernovas. Finally, though, all that will be left in the cosmos will be black holes, the burnt-out cinders of stars and the dead husks of planets. The universe will be cold and black...
Silvio Berlusconi used to say he loved Sabina Guzzanti's TV impersonations of him. He may have changed his mind after her last couple of outings on the political satire show L'Ottavo Nano (The Eighth Dwarf). Guzzanti's version of the media mogul-turned-politician is dismissive of immigrants, throws bricks at passersby, boasts of having bought Italian democracy and, naturally, gets a custard pie in his face. The 37-year-old Guzzanti says her satire is "a way of showing people they're not alone in noticing the lack of logic in Italian politics." She has made...
...quite unpersuasive. Balthus' interiors can have a chilly and highly stage-managed perverseness, as in The Room, 1952-54, where the young girl sprawls on a chair in utter abandonment, flooded with the light from a huge window whose heavy curtains are being pulled back by a sinister dwarf...
...Blazers, Lakers, Spurs, and Kings are all bona fide threats to winning the crown, and most likely will face off against one another come the conference semifinals and finals. Yet teams like the Mavericks, Suns, Jazz, and T-Wolves will all provide entertaining first-round series that will dwarf any potential excitement generated in the Eastern Conference's first two rounds...
...winners than Immelt: Robert Nardelli and W. James McNerney, two Welch-trained knights-in-the-running who failed to win the crown. With Welch's shoes filled--if that's possible--these executives won't stay at GE much longer, and the pay packages that land them will probably dwarf what will initially be given to Immelt. A signing bonus in the tens of millions of dollars? Instant vesting in stock plans? Huge guaranteed annual bonuses? A big chunk of the company? Such goodies are widely available to top-flight managers in today's mobile CEO sweepstakes...