The thought of this president wandering Nixon-like in the White House in the dead of the night talking to presidential portraits is a bit much.

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"The difference is you're talking about somebody dead in the vehicle or dying very quickly, or somebody being able to get out of the vehicle themselves, " said David Ward, director general of the London-based FIA Foundation for auto safety, which supports the Euro and Latin NCAP programs.

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By the time the two got talking, Chrysler was no longer the funky Detroit company that in the 1980s had come back from the dead through then chief executive Lee Iacocca's sheer flair.

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On his blog, Mr Grillo also published a mocked-up film poster depicting Mr Bersani as a "Dead Man Talking", based on the 1950 Italian comedy, 47 Morto Che Parla.

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As Oz likes to say, Marcus Welby the kindly, accessible, but straight-talking television doctor is dead.

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We were sitting in the garden listening to the intoxicated hum of late-autumnal wasps, talking quietly and for a long time of Lajos and the children, as well as of Vilma, my dead sister.

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