Word: grips
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...state broadcaster RAI. Last April he publicly called for the sacking of three left-leaning talk-show hosts - and they were duly fired. "Italy risks sliding into a regime without realizing it," warns opposition leader Francesco Rutelli. Despite the criticisms, Berlusconi has become the Prime Minister with the tightest grip on power in postwar Italian history. His approval ratings remain high. Success in politics, he says, requires the same key skill as success in business: salesmanship. "He is who he is," says Giuliano Ferrara, a Berlusconi confidant and editor of the conservative daily Il Foglio. "Berlusconi is an outsider...
...guided by its security concerns, and there may not be much more than symbolic gestures towards the Palestinians until the PA security forces launch a crackdown. Abbas may have previously argued that he is unable to act against Hamas and other militant groups until the Israelis have loosened their grip. But now Washington is setting the agenda, sending a team of 12 monitors to the region this weekend to oversee implementation of the "roadmap." And the Bush administration is expecting results from Abbas, and quickly. That may soon leave the new, and somewhat lonely Palestinian prime minister facing the unhappy...
...first two years in office, Summers has sought to tighten his managerial grip on the University’s different schools, particularly the College...
...psyche and in the meat and moisture of the human body. In recent years she has been showing variations on an enormous metal spider. The one at Dia: Beacon, wedged into a brick-lined confinement, is the best, and best displayed, of any of them, holding in its grip a cage in which you see tattered tapestries that recall the ones Bourgeois's family repaired as a business...
Domingos Ximenes pulls off his T shirt to reveal a body that tells the story of two decades of war and suffering. On his left arm is a map of East Timor in the grip of a fist; on his right arm and across his chest tumble rough tattoos of a sacred bird, a Bible and crucifix, and a spear. In many places scars show through the faded images, souvenirs of countless battles in the bush. Four years after the end of the war against Indonesia's occupation, this former guerrilla fighter has no job and little sense of purpose...