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...crisis. "Che coraggio!?" an Italian might say with an apt double meaning: "What courage?" and "What gall!" Just 24 hours later, Mastella was already being publicly courted by Silvio Berlusconi, ever-present opposition chief, Prodi archnemesis and former - and would-be future - Prime Minister. Despite its air of overwrought soap opera, Italy's latest government crisis is almost anticlimactic. Prodi took office in 2006 with a razor-thin majority in the Senate, backed by disparate allies who didn't trust each other; most of them possessed enough votes to trigger a collapse. But the fate of the coalition...
...minute he took his oath at the inquest into the deaths of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed on Monday, Burrell became the closest thing this extended soap opera has to a star witness. Sitting with his hands clasped in front of him, speaking so softly that the lawyers had to ask him several times to talk louder, he spent most of the day answering questions about relationships: his and Diana's, Diana's and Prince Philip's, Diana's with Dodi's versus that with her ex-boyfriend, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. But it was near...
Like in any good soap opera, this episode ended on a cliffhanger. In an attempt to show that Burrell knew something significant about Dodi and Diana that he wasn't telling, Mansfield read out the last page in Burrell's 2003 book A Royal Duty. It quotes a letter Diana had written to the butler not long before she died. In it, she refers to "the coming weekend" being an important one. Then she goes on to say, "I wanted to write on paper how enormously touched I am that you share this excitement with me as well. What...
...women were his greatest audience. He returned to Tokyo in the late 1960s and marked his first big success with a specially formulated cleansing oil, inculcating to generations of women that oil, which preserves moisture, also left skin cleaner than soap. The health of a woman's skin, he believed, was paramount and Uemura's reputation was for enhancing natural beauty - not artificially creating...
...Scary Living Green Re Lisa Takeuchi Cullen's "It's Inconvenient Being Green" [Dec. 3]: Ever since I visited Asia 25 years ago, I've known how to go without toilet paper - and have never been so clean! As long as we have soap and water, we can emerge cleaner than ever. So, Lisa, help save a tree! Roberto Lamoureux, SURIGAO DEL NORTE, THE PHILIPPINES...