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...Under a new proportional electoral system, a slim victory with less than 1.5 percentage points between the two main parties can deprive the winner of an outright majority in parliament. On Wednesday, a host of independent pollsters conducting secret tracking polls said the Prime Minister's threat of political uncertainty in addition to his crisis management after the fires had boosted his approval ratings - a claim denied by socialists, who said that both parties were locked in a "dead even" race...
...ventured to Fanfiction.net to see if I could rekindle the spirit of The Sopranos. In the TV category I found several fan-created episodes for hundreds of television shows like: Laverne and Shirley (123), Dr. Who (7,779), JAG (3,409) but slim pickings for Sopranos (50). I can pick from episodes where Adriana is resurrected, selections where minor character Furio is fleshed out. I think I'll dive into something that sounds like Harry Potter meets the Sopranos, as one story promises, with zombies, angels and bloodsuckers. Maybe that's my problem with the Harry Potter series; the stories...
...last day of the poverty tour, Edwards finally caught fire. It happened at the Wise County Fairgrounds in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, where he was interviewing health advocates and patients. Everybody said their bit except for one man-slim as a stick, with thick brown hair combed straight back from a well-worn face that was anchored by a salt-and-pepper goatee. He didn't say a word until Edwards noticed him. He reminded the candidate of men who'd worked in the mills with his father. "I'd like to hear from you," Edwards said...
...young hipsters all came here and then they just grew up and starting having babies," says Jana von Oheimb-Rosta, a slim 34-year-old with jet black hair, as she lurches to grab her four-year-old before he bolts. She came to Prenzlauer Berg as a teenager before the Wall fell, and lived in an occupied house. "Now, the entire yuppie world is moving in here," she says...
...Slim Truth Re Steve Rushin's essay "How Friends Make You Fat" [Aug. 13]: If it's true that friends make you fat, then Rushin failed to mention how friends make you drunk, how friends make you stupid and how friends make you lazy. Same logic, different situations. Americans need to wake up and take responsibility for themselves and their actions. We should let our friends own their own problems. Teresa J. Black, Mount Vernon, Illinois