I don't know what the midget problem was either.
This old-new line-up does not bode well either for Italian political stability or for economic or constitutional reform.On the right, Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon who leads the main opposition, has managed to lure Umberto Bossi and his once-separatist and now much weaker Northern League back into his alliance, which includes the post-fascists and some midget parties.
The sinking in March of a South Korean frigate provides a further example of the asymmetric nature of anti-ship weapons: the evidence suggests that it was sunk by a torpedo fired from a North Korean "midget submarine" small enough to hide in shallow water, where it is hard to detect using sonar.
These range from the mass-produced Seraj-1 missile and the Zolfaqar speedboat, which can travel at 80mph (130kph) and carries the Nasr anti-ship cruise missile, to a growing fleet of Ghadir midget submarines, the Karrar armed drone and mobile shore-based missile batteries.
Asus's first Eee PC was a puny device with a screen measuring only seven inches (18 centimetres) diagonally, a midget keyboard and flash memory instead of a hard disk.
True, Mr Cellucci differs little from Mr Weld on the issues, but he is charisma-free and best known for his debts of $700,000.Leading the midget charge among the Democrats is Joe Kennedy, an undistinguished congressman whom Mr Weld would have thrashed in a race.
Hoechst is heading in the right direction; it simply has to finish the job.DAVID SADTLERLondonSmall pointSIR The use of the word "midget" ("Weldless", May 3rd) and the suggestion that hardly anybody takes short people seriously ("Bill Clinton's left-hand man" in Moreover), are obviously the work of dinosaur-brained journalists.
FOR 16 years, Jörg Haider, a far-right populist, had been siphoning votes away from Austria's two main parties, the Social Democrats on the centre-left and the People's Party on the centre-right, turning his Freedom Party from a midget into Austria's heftiest party after the Social Democrats.
It includes Grand Prix racing, speedway racing, stock-car racing, sports-car racing, drag racing, midget-car racing, and karting, as well as hill climbs and trials (see hill climb; see also rally driving; gymkhana).
Hill began in racing as a mechanic for midget-car racing in the Santa Monica, Calif., area, where he grew up.
(Where do they all go?)In this setting, moreover, finance takes on a surprisingly artistic quality whether it be the colourful ornateness of 19th-century railway bonds or design classics such as the Quotron trading terminal or much older Brunsviga-Midget System Trinks counting machine.
