Alas, "Churchill's Bomb" aims to be a book of controversy too, laying two weighty charges against the wartime leader.
These weighty charges were brought because, in a public speech and in a pamphlet, he had criticised Malaysia's police and its attorney general over their conduct of a case involving a 15-year-old girl and a number of men, including a prominent politician.
Its weightiest charge is that the takeover would allow BP Amoco to dominate upstream oil production in Alaska, where BP Amoco and Arco together control some 70% of oil reserves.
Its prosecutors happily zap suspects with a relatively minor offence and then hold them until they have enough evidence to bring a weightier charge.
Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission, an independent body charged with the weighty mission of investigating human rights violations and financial crimes committed since independence, was supposed to begin public hearings this summer.
At last she told Arty that they would have to take the stairs, and she carried him over to their brink and started the descent with her weighty dying charge.
Travel, lodging and real estate company Cendant on Monday said its quarterly net income declined after a weighty accounting charge, although earnings from operations topped analysts' estimates.
Since they are charged with such a risky and weighty mission, mental-health professionals would certainly benefit from Carlat's unique brand of honesty about the limitations of picking a psychomethodology and hanging out the matching shingle.
For a composer who longed to write weightier operas, this charge no doubt touched a sore nerve.
One of them, Nahum Barnea, writing in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot, said that Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Abbas "are returning home to their peoples with suitcases packed with large, charged and weighty words.
Of particular concern are the difficulties Mr Renzi seems to be having in finding a weighty figure willing to take charge of the finance ministry.Italians in general appear to be quite sceptical about Mr Renzi's pledges.
