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...Republican Convention, hiring staff, raising funds and building a campaign machine. But if the nomination fight goes all the way to August's Democratic Convention in Denver, it could become a summer of disarray. Some Democrats worry about what Barack Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe calls a "nightmare scenario," in which both campaigns would haggle with the Democratic National Committee over speakers, delegate rules, the party platform and the critical issue of when to schedule roll-call votes. For a party with a reputation for disorganization, divergent agendas could mean chaos. Instead of being able to script the convention...
...Rififi scenario was replayed, more for laughs than for suspense, in Topkapi. The gang comprises not the standard tough guys but con artistes on a lark, to steal a jewel-encrusted scimitar from a hall in the Topkapi museum. Maximilian Schell leads a troupe of some of the major muggers of international cinema: Mercouri, Akim Tamiroff, Peter Ustinov (who won an Oscar), Titos Vandis and Robert Morley. But the more valuable member is the muscular Gilles Segal, as the acrobat whose job is to be lowered by rope into the hall from a high window, then remove the case, nick...
...less willing to seek medical attention in an emergency. (“Oh no! Jane has stopped breathing! If only we were in a dormitory, so a resident tutor could have the presence of mind to call for help!” does not seem an especially likely scenario...
...suicide-bomber vest. Nobody knows whether it has been timed to detonate. For several minutes she stands there, face contorted with fear. Then an officer shouts, "Take the vest off slowly!" The woman slips it off and moves across the street to safety. The noise subsides, the scenario ends, and the teaching begins. This has all been a training exercise, part of four days of urban-warfare education with nearly 250 first responders--police, firefighters, EMTS, 911 operators--from all over the country taking part...
...former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni comes at one of the lowest moments in post-war Italian history. With the country locked in a vicious cycle of public cynicism and economic malaise, the election does not bode well. Many pundits think the best-case scenario might be a failure by both Berlusconi and Veltroni to win a ruling majority - an outcome that would lead to the formation of a caretaker grand coalition. It is a sad day indeed for democracy when smart people start pulling for both sides to lose...