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...left government lost a decisive confidence vote, sealing its collapse. When two members of the National Alliance party popped bottles of spumante and waved slices of mortadella to mock Prodi - nicknamed "Mortadella" for his presumed resemblance to the pink sausage popular in his hometown of Bologna - the white-haired, pipe-smoking Senate President pounded his gavel and ordered Senate guards to immediately remove the victuals. "This isn't a tavern here!" he barked...
...office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
Despite the palpable enthusiasm nationwide for Obama’s candidacy, there remains the lingering suspicion that it might all be a pipe dream. After all, it’s easy to talk about changing the political system on the campaign trail; it’s much more difficult to put it into practice in the harsh Washington world of backroom deals and partisan squabbles...
...abandon any hope of having an in-flight meal. Being fed on an airplane has become a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. And that's O.K., because the Tupperwared leftover fumes rising from the row in front of me will tide me over till touchdown, thank...
...same evidence of inequities against women, as well as against minorities and gays, Klein's politically correct treatise comes to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Her data essentially find a malign plot by those in power. For many in those oppressed groups, she maintains, work "is a constantly dripping pipe of daily indignities that cumulatively lead to feelings of isolation and distrust--and ultimately to extraordinarily high rates of voluntary turnover." It's hard not to conclude that the truth falls somewhere between the poles these two books represent...