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Silvio Berlusconi's struggle to outrun revelations about his private life has kept headline writers from Tallahassee to Tokyo busy for nearly six months now. The latest chapter began on Sept. 8, with the leaked court testimony of a Bari businessman accused of bringing prostitutes to the Italian Prime Minister's private residence in Rome. Though the deposition by Gianpaolo Tarantini confirmed Berlusconi's earlier claims that he didn't know the women were being paid, its contents were so juicy, it set off a whole new round of coverage. When Berlusconi was asked about Tarantini's testimony two days...
...house police found four children all huddled together. They knew they were children by the size of their skulls. Near a road, firefighters found the body of a man who appeared to have crashed his motorcycle and then died as he tried to outrun the flames. One man put his children in the car and dashed back to his house to collect something; when he returned the car was on fire and his children dead...
...fires. In one house police found four children huddled together. They knew they were children by the size of their skulls. Near a road they found the body of a man who appeared to have crashed his Harley Davidson motorcycle and then died as he tried to outrun the flames. Six died in a multi-car pileup as drivers tried to avoid falling trees and raging fires. One man died on a sports-field - perhaps believing that the short grass would halt the flames. Dozens left it too late to flee thinking they could fight the flames and then...
...world should getting ready for much higher oil prices, even if that will make the recession deeper. OPEC has the capacity to cut demand at a rate to outrun falling supply. It has not done so, but that could change before the end of this quarter. Its member nations are ready to put their own interests ahead of those of both their customers and the economy at large...
...When you get to the higher levels of division one college basketball, it’s all about strength and conditioning—can you outstrength and outrun the other team?” Rollins said. “And I think we’ve been able to at least stay with our opponents if not outrun them. It’s always been a strength...