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...What's happening today behind a front of bodily curves and female beauty is grave.' VERONICA LARIO, wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, publicly criticizing her husband for filling his Cabinet with beautiful women and using them as "pieces of costume jewelry" to attract votes. She later announced plans to divorce...
...stopper's real advantage over cork closures is as a solution to TCA (2,4,6-trichloroanisole), the molecule that when present in cork is responsible for wine taint. "TCA is the great scourge of wine," says Peter Liem, the Épernay-based founder of champagneguide.net. "The problem is grave enough that it's becoming necessary to find either a solution to TCA in cork or an alternate closure...
...Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had been hearing warnings from the combat zones ever since the April 23 announcement of the agreement. In weekly video conferences and private letters, top commanders in the region expressed grave concerns over the possible impact of the photographs. Both Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki raised similar doubts over the decision, a senior Pentagon official says...
...case, Cheney's reappearance has delighted Democrats - "Bring it on!" quipped a White House official on Tuesday afternoon, when asked about Cheney's re-emergence - and dismayed Republicans. Said one: "We're trying to turn the page, and he's climbing out of the grave to haunt...
...grisly find was one of six recently uncovered mass graves cited in the newest U.N. human-rights report on Iraq. The five others were found in areas controlled by Sunni insurgents during the peak periods of violence in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, meaning the killers likely had no connection to the Iraqi government. But the grave in Ur was almost certainly the work of killers associated with the Shi'ite Mahdi Army militia, which was supported by elements of the Iraqi security forces. (See a multimedia presentation of emergency-room work amid the 2007 fighting...