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SILVIO BERLUSCONI, the Italian Prime Minister and new president of the European Union, often puts his foot in his mouth. Last week he outdid himself. When a German minister questioned his fitness for the post, Berlusconi snapped, "I know there is a man in Italy producing a film on the Nazi concentration camps. I would like to suggest you for the role of leader." He says he's not apologizing...
...After war broke out, a perceptible gloom descended on the ship, so the master ordered a party, a barbecue on the portside deck. Victor outdid himself, orchestrating a splendid, meaty feast with all the fixings. He consulted me, as the ship's temporary resident Texan, for advice about making barbecue sauce; in the end, he stretched it with leftover watermelon. (Strange, but perfectly good form: as any Texan will tell you, you can throw whatever you like into a barbecue sauce...
...weekend after a career-best, third-place finish in the 15K Classic at the UNH College Carnival, Harvard junior women’s Nordic captain Anna McLoon outdid herself with a win in the 10K Classic at UVM’s Winter Carnival Saturday...
...Experience has taught them that equities have almost always been the best place to keep their money over the long run. Academic theory - oft repeated by stockbrokers - held that stocks returned an average of more than 7 percentage points a year over risk-free government bills, and nearly always outdid bonds in any 20-year period. Yet this conventional wisdom may not be a reliable guide to the future, for Americans or anyone else. In a landmark new study, The Triumph of the Optimists, a trio of London Business School researchers crunched stock market data for 16 nations over...
...breaking out an acoustic guitar for a solo acoustic protest song circling around the lyric “We can bomb the world to pieces/ But we can’t bomb it into peace.” Franti makes no secret of his politics, and the audience, who outdid the music for eclecticism, was noisy in its approval...