Yet his power base may not be solid.
It may not be solid gold, like Tutankhamun's – but it is from the same dynastic period, it is unnervingly beautiful and it is precisely the kind of object that visitors to the museum have usually most wanted to see.
"If all that the leaders can think about are political negotiations" and economic interests "and there is no genuine understanding of emotions, then the foundation of peace would not be solid enough," she said.
Slow-Speed Bank Runs in Europe | Floyd Norris writes in his column in The New York Times: "Depositors are pulling money out of banks in countries that may or may not be solid, and putting the money into German banks.
But he is fed up with too much being read into thin research.Although the data about what is happening now may not be solid enough to bear too much interpretation, the models' predictions are not reassuring either.
"Sometimes," he told me, "in all candor, if you think somebody might not be solid" after casting a vote in conference, "it might be wiser to let that person write the opinion," because after defending a position at length, people "tend to become even more convinced" than when they started.
