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Only two of the founders were left now, thought Jerry Ford: himself and John Allen, the old Congressman from Oakland, California, off someplace in Idaho now. Richard Nixon had been among the three surviving founders of the Chowder and Marching Society, formed in 1949 by 15 fractious young Republicans of the House to oppose monthly bonuses for war veterans, which they considered too costly. Chowder and Marching welded exuberant friendships and accidentally founded a power matrix that helped produce three Presidents and shape an American half-century...
Thanks to the cross fire of contradictions that divide Berlusconi's two allies, the country again has the makings of a ruling coalition every bit as fractious as the 52 revolving-door administrations that came before. "It's a difficult alliance," Berlusconi concedes. But, adds Il Cavaliere ("the Knight," as he is known), "a general doesn't fight a war with the soldiers he wants. He fights with the ones...
...fractious right-wing coalition won Italy's national parliamentary elections. Led by billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Freedom Alliance won a strong majority of 366 seats in Parliament's lower house and a plurality of 155 seats in the Senate. Included in the victorious coalition is the neo-Fascist National Alliance, whose leaders still revere the memory of the dictator Benito Mussolini...
...still deal with the fact that he is irremediably different, set apart by culture and genius. By the time The Little Ballet came along in 1983, Misha was A.B.T.'s director, and that dance was a hilarious, poignant picture of a harried boss trying to cope with a fractious company. It was the dance equivalent of Day for Night, Francois Truffaut's classic film about a movie director on location. White Oak presents the latest installment, Pergolesi, which shows Baryshnikov swinging along in a modern vein even as he reviews his crowded career...
...California recession shrunk tax revenues and led to astronomical deficits in the state budget. Normally fractious politicians in Sacramento, embarrassed by the perennial budget debacles that have plagued the state and apprehensive about the seemingly-endless recession, have joined to make California more business-friendly. Last year, the state legislature passed comprehensive pro-business workers' compensation reform and began to loosen the noose of bureaucratic and environmental regulations that have for so long driven businesses out of the state...