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But Ennio Caretto, Washington correspondent of Corriere della Sera of Milan, noted the president had inserted "a premeditated and cunning note" into his condolences about the mudslides.
Like the pioneers of the Old West, Pooh is endlessly greedy, and he is cunning in pursuit of that greed.
In the opening scenes, for instance, even as McTeer enacts Nora's dependence on her husband, she shows the cunning that is the only outlet for the character's acute and sensitive mind--submission as manipulation.
Climb like a cucumber, fall like an aubergine; Stretch your feet only as far as your blanket allows; No tree has reached the sky; The foot that is too swift must be cut off; He who eats the Sultan's raisins must give him dates, or, put another way, A man without cunning is like an empty matchbox.
In this cunning, amusing poem, with its punch line that never wears out, the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy penetrates deep into the nature of political life.