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...Still, Italians are likely to barely notice the latest courtroom tussle. In a country where guilt is always relative, politicians tend to stick around through even the thickest mud. And most voters have long ago made up their minds that Berlusconi is either a crook or the victim of blood-thirsty prosecutors who want to usurp power from a democratically elected leader. The timing, so close to Berlusconi?s showdown with former European Commission President Romano Prodi, may actually help Berlusconi by convincing some of the relatively few undecided voters that there is indeed a political motive for the investigations...
...research confirms that the human brain retains an astonishing degree of plasticity and capacity for learning throughout life. In some respects, our mental performance, despite a few glitches with short-term memory, doesn't peak until midlife, when the white matter in the loftiest parts of the brain is thickest...
...novel opens, famously, with fog: the dense murk that envelops London but settles thickest around the High Court of Chancery. Out of it swirls a teeming cloud of characters and incidents: a lawsuit that has been droning on for years, now grown "so complicated that no man alive knows what it means." An upper-class lady hiding a dark secret. Orphaned children, greedy adults, blackmailing lawyers, a detective story, a reunion and several untimely deaths (one of them by spontaneous combustion). The sheer scope of Charles Dickens' great novel Bleak House presents a daunting task for any adapter...
...Binkley’s beard is coming in the thickest...
...just who is Arnold, and what does he bring to public life other than a cumulonimbus physique and the thickest Mitteleuropean accent since Henry Kissinger? Gary Coleman, the onetime TV actor who is also running for Governor, may be the very definition of a long-shot candidate. But even he has a website with a platform. That's more than you can say for Schwarzenegger. Last week he was still mostly saying things like, "I will pump up Sacramento!" Friends describe him as a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative but libertarian on most social issues. They also...