If you could see inside his brain, as his enemies no doubt hoped to, you would find it primed to attack and defend in every way possible, with a straight-moving rook or a sidling bishop, or with both in his favourite Ruy Lopez opening, or with the queen swallowing an early pawn in the "poisoned" version of the Sicilian, or a thousand others.
(The simplest example is "prime factorization," the mathematical problem around which many codes are built: Take two prime numbers, and it's easy to compute their product; take a big number and try to find its prime factors, and it could take billions of years).
THIS cozy country restaurant is certainly a destination for all seasons, but summer and fall find it in its prime.
Women are different: they look for some version of themselves, young or old, fat or thin, and they find it in prime time.
Women and the young find it more difficult than prime age men to match with jobs that offer them the hours they desire.
"I find it astonishing that the prime minister, as soon as there is a problem, never has any knowledge of it," said Michele Alliothearie, the current president of Mr. Chirac's party.
You find it at Craftsteak and Prime -- the first owned by Tom Colicchio, of Craft and Gramercy Tavern, the second by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, of Jean-Georges and JoJo, two New Yorkers not previously known as steak mavens.
Having played anti-section 28 concerts at the beginning of the Pet Shop Boys' career, did he find it odd that a Conservative prime minister supported gay rights so strongly?
The situation has gotten to the point where nobody even seems to find it especially odd that the prime minister, like an Italian version of Miriam from Forest Hills or Dave from Harlem calling into WFAN, regularly phones television chat shows to rant or complain about how the host is portraying some government measure.
The prime minister would find it difficult to be so upbeat about the issue today.
