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...Fiat doesn't fly," Davis said. "I don't think students would ever play to fist...
Further, the council should continue to allow and encourage students to write in candidates. While probably not affecting the outcome, this change would at least add to the appearance of legitimacy. Remember: write-in candidates were disqualified from elections just last year by presidential fiat. With the dearth of candidates this year, six write-in candidates have won positions in the council...
...Franklin and Eleanor's offspring might have become first-class boors even without famous parents. Elliott wanted to be a "big man" and ended as a hard-drinking Rotarian in Arizona. Franklin Jr. drank copiously, served in Congress and was a distributor of Fiat cars. Anna Roosevelt feuded bitterly with her mother; her husband deserted her and killed himself. Collier catalogs these events in a plodding, too decorous way, but his problem is basic: with the exception of Eleanor and the two great Presidents, these Roosevelts were an uninspired group who, in the end, weren't much of a dynasty...
Like any reasonable businessman in Moscow, Boris Berezovsky took the possibility of an assualt on his life for granted. The chairman of Logovaz, the country's leading dealer in Zhiguli cars (a Russian-made Fiat), he never traveled without a bodyguard to ward off attacks by racketeers, competitors or any of the city's other assorted thugs. Yet such precautions couldn't prevent a remote-control car bomb from exploding as he walked out of his downtown office early this month. Berezovsky escaped with only burned hands. But his bodyguard suffered severe chest injuries that required six hours of surgery...
Baghdad is trying to attract Russia by offering major contracts for oil exploration and rebuilding refineries. In February the Italian gas company Italgaz sent a high-level delegation to Iraq, followed last month by representatives of 30 leading Italian companies, including Fiat autos and International Scientifica, a medical-equipment maker. British, German and Japanese firms have also been poking around the bazaar...