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Oh, Juliet, to beseech your advice! LITERATURE
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Dinitia Smith
International Herald Tribune
03-31-2006
'Dear Juliet,'' the letters all begin. ''Dear Juliet, You are my last hope. The woman I love more than anything in the world has left me.''''Dear Juliet, I live on the third floor. My parents don't allow my boyfriend to come to my house. So I have to sneak him in.''''Dear Juliet, my name is Riccardo. I am 10 years old.'' Riccardo is in love with an older woman, 14. He saw her in Verona the summer before. Does Juliet have news of her? Every week, hundreds of letters pour into the office of the Club di Giulietta, in Verona, Italy, the city ...
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PYRRHUS, AL HARDLY KNEW YE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...to the limit, even as the odds against him stretch to the astronomical. Pyrrhus is the Greek king and general Al Gore needs to look to for counsel at this point. Pyrrhus is the poor sot popularly remembered for winning a major battle 2,300...
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Andersen meets King Pyrrhus.(Arthur Andersen L.L.P)
Magazine article from: Accounting Today
; ...looked it up that evening, I learned that it referred to King Pyrrhus of Epirus, who, despite defeating the Romans at Asculum in...despite the visceral vindication, the ruling may replace King Pyrrhus as the 21st century definition of a Pyrrhic win in any dictionary...
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The victory of King Pyrrhus
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record
; ...first debate by not losing; Gore lost the second debate by not fighting. In the rubber match, like the sadly victorious King Pyrrhus, Gore won the third debate in a way that may cost him the election. The wondrous thing about debates is their effect on undecided...
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Pyrrhus on the hustings. (Republican presidential campaigns) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Review
; OF ALL, the possible interpretations of New Hampshire's results, the least plausible has been George Bush's. Mr. Bush seems to believe that this was a matter of style not substance. When the returns were in he issued a terse statement that did not mention Buchanan by name, much less give him credit
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Pyrrhus was a Greek, too. (analysis of presidential debate)
Magazine article from: National Review
; THE MODERN presidential debate is not a debate, as such things are understood by high schools, TV talk shows, or the House of Lords. Candidates do not get to speak at length, to mix it up much, or to elaborate on their views. (Perhaps the last such debate in American politics was the clash between
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Pyrrhus of Caracas.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence
; Jan 09, 2003 (The Economist - ABIX via COMTEX) Since becoming president of Venezuela in 1999, Hugo Chavez has struggled to bring the state oil company to heel. He claimed that Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) was a law unto itself. He may have succeeded in breaking it, but at great cost. With the
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Pyrrhus of Caracas; Venezuela's general strike.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; President turned strikebreaker President Chavez is clinging on--but at a terrible cost to his country EVER since he took office as Venezuela's president in February 1999, Hugo Chavez has been trying to bring the powerful state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), under the control of
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Pyrrhus at the check-out: British food retailing.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; A BOUNTEOUS decade for Britain's big supermarket chains ended abruptly last year thanks to the arrival of discount stores. Selling a limited range at prices as much as 30% below those of the mainstream supermarkets, these low-cost interlopers quickly grabbed a tenth of Britain's Pounds 50 billion
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KÖNIG PYRRHUS UND KALIF STORCH
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; KURT WEILER-EIN MEISTER DES PUPPENTRICKS Am 10. November 1939, einen Tag nach den Pogromen der "Reichskristallnacht", wurde Kurt Weiler verhaftet. Gemeinsam mit seinem Vater, einem Kauftnann, und allen mnnlichen Juden seiner Heimatstadt Lehrte fand er sich in Polizeigewahrsam wieder. Doch whrend
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Rome on the move.(Roman Republic)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...protect their freedom and sought the aid of Pyrrhus, the ruler of Epirus in western Greece. The three battles Rome fought against Pyrrhus decided the fate of all Italy. The first...modern expression "a Pyrrhic victory." Pyrrhus led 25,000 men and 20 elephants against...
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