Why do so many peripheral members of her dysfunctional family get so much money from Parliament every year?
In addition to the work of the four Russian émigrés, there are also several paintings by George Constant and Milton Avery, peripheral members of the group.
What it manages to do very effectively is ask its teen readers to think carefully about how being part of a herd can mean trampling weaker, peripheral members.
Not shown are some of the peripheral members of the euro zone, which have been robbed of competitiveness by inflation.
The focus of the last couple of years on borrowing costs for peripheral members of the euro zone was, in retrospect, unfortunate.
report said peripheral members of the euro zone needed to make "unrelenting" reform efforts to overcome the debt crisis and prevent it from spreading more.
Greece and other, more "peripheral" members of the 16-nation bloc would gain little, he said, because their export sectors were too small to make much difference.
Europe has many world-class companies that sell goods and services across the globe and that are not dependent on the fortunes of peripheral members of the euro zone.
The continuing strength in Germany contrasts with Europe's so-called "peripheral" members, which are desperately cutting government spending and raising taxes in an effort to bring down deficits and debt levels.
Tottenham Hotspur's attempts to bring reinforcements to White Hart Lane this summer have been hampered because the Londoners have struggled to sell peripheral members of their squad, manager Harry Redknapp has claimed.
It will take massive government intervention to stem the crisis, and even if euro-zone governments succeed there is a risk the euro-zone economy will follow its peripheral members into recession.
