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...surprising that the billionaire leader's bid for re-election against center-left rival Romano Prodi is turning toxic. Berlusconi, 69, is trailing in the polls. After a lackluster showing in the first of two televised debates, Berlusconi has sought to revive his prospects with fresh shots of venom. Last week, he stole headlines after exploding onstage at a conference of Italy's leading industrialists. The Prime Minister accused businessmen who support the left of either being crazy or having "skeletons in the closet" that require them to seek protection from left-wing magistrates. Berlusconi lashed out again following protests...
...with regard to policies that all future Administrations must grapple with in protecting us.The threat is real and it's all the more lethal because, paradoxically or not, it's driven by religion and nihilism and a civilization's very unhappy encounter with modernity. We must get beyond the venom and second-guessing and find common cause. We owe it to the men and women putting their lives at risk in order to protect us. We owe it to our children. We owe it to ourselves...
Imagine, then, watching what came next, as she was declared a mediocrity, a crony, "the least qualified choice since Caligula named his horse to the Senate." There was such venom in the attacks that you had to remind yourself that unlike in past court dramas--the slaying of Robert Bork or Richard Nixon's ill-fated henchman G. Harrold Carswell--this was not just about her; it was about him, about Bush's promises and the dream of a permanent conservative revolution. Of all the things a President ever does, this is the one that lasts: he picks the jurists...
...Venom...
...it” in question is the possessed, satanic monster of “Venom,” the latest R-rated, horror flick to crawl onto screens on the blood-soaked coattails of “The Grudge” and “Saw.” Director Jim Gillespie (“I Know What You Did Last Summer”) and producer Kevin Williamson (“Scream” and “Dawson’s Creek”) teamed up to make “Venom”; however, the movie fails...