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...party from Berlusconi's coalition. Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti's forced resignation in July fired the hopes of opposition leaders even more. The bluster and bravado that had helped keep Berlusconi in office for longer than any other Italian premier since World War II seemed to be wearing thin Yet six months later, the Italian leader is once again sitting pretty. What's his secret? Part of the credit goes to a new, gentler governing approach, as Berlusconi has tempered his outbursts against center-left opponents and found new ways to share power with coalition allies. And part goes...
...been explored. Some 120 companies have joined Libya's first open bidding process to dig for new oil in 15 areas; the bid results are expected at the end of this month. Oil companies regard Libya's crude as some of the best on the planet. Relatively thin, it is among the easiest to refine. And tankers leaving Libya need far less time to reach U.S. and European ports than those leaving the Persian Gulf. Given the turmoil in Iraq, and the fact that Washington is on chilly terms with Iran, many U.S. oil companies see Libya as a dream...
...John Gottman can watch a 15-minute videotape of a husband and wife about whom he knows nothing and predict with 90% accuracy whether they will still be married in 15 years. Gladwell, with his infernal gift for coining buzzwords, calls the rapid analysis performed by the unconscious mind "thin slicing...
...from topic to topic, using comedy and sarcasm to convey moral rage; its hero was a grungy fat guy who ambushed his adversaries. Mel Gibson?s docudrama was stolid, bloody, humorless, remorseless, sticking to its micro-subject with macro implications, staying obsessively on point; its hero was a stern thin man who endured scourging and calumny in order to fulfill His mission. In other words, Moore embodied what the Right saw as Kerry?s base; Jesus incarnated what the Right saw as their hero...
...role of Klaus Daimler is played with one-note efficiency by Willem Dafoe. Owen Wilson (as Zissou’s alleged illegitimate offspring) and Anjelica Huston (as Zissou’s dedicated wife) play their roles with such maddeningly detached insincerity that even their supposedly emotive scenes are one thin ironic line away from bad line readings at community theater auditions...