Word: whips
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...Mind you, his opponents haven't lacked for vitriol. Diego Della Valle, chairman of luxury shoemakers Tod's and one of the businessmen savaged by the PM, returned fire: "Mr. Berlusconi is a tired man. His family should take him home and take care of him." Center-left Parliament whip Luciano Violante told an interviewer that Berlusconi "has a Mafia circle close to him," referring to a former Cosa Nostra figure who tended Berlusconi's horses in the mid-1970s. Another opposition center-left insider said charges like Violante's didn't do his own side any good. "Tossing...
...kickback to the regime of between 10-19%. As the Cole Inquiry is now hearing with disquieting regularity, key officials have very short memories; dfat's filing system is wretched; and, after writing to officials in March 2004 that he was worried, the Minister failed to crack the whip. Perhaps Downer wasn't kidding about being a humble laborer...
...praise and honors that have been heaped upon him.Since carrying the United States flag in the closing ceremony of the Games, Cheek has been given the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Spirit Award, appeared on the Wheaties box, and met with President Bush and House Democratic whip Nancy Pelosi.And his hometown of Greensboro, N.C., couldn’t be prouder of Cheek, declaring March 23 “Joey Cheek Day” while Greensboro College introduced the “Joey Cheek Scholarship,” a four-year honor to be awarded to a student from...
...Harvard’s new women’s center. Breezing past the cushy couches, the big screen television, and the office space complete with a speedy wireless network, she strides into the state-of-the-art kitchen, equipped with ovens to serve any baking need. But rather than whip up a batch of gooey homemade chocolate-chip cookies, she brazenly hurls her brassiere into the oven. The kitchen smells not of delightful baked goods, but of burning nylon...
Since then Patterson has co-written eight of his novels. He'll whip up a detailed outline, then ship it off to his collaborator for a first draft. "I may talk to them on a couple-week basis," he says. "And then at a certain point I'll just take it over and write as many as seven drafts. There were a couple of them that really were a mess," he adds ruefully. "At least twice it's been, 'I wish that I just started this thing myself.'" It's rare for big-name authors to use co-writers...