"We all know it's a half-measure and that they want to satisfy Westminster in order to keep the concerts running, " said Anthony Lorenz, Chairman of the Residents Society of Mayfair and St James.

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As a scientist, he knew that the median was merely a statistical measure, signifying that half the patients lived this long and half did not.

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Necessary reforms - including reform of the electoral law made to measure by Mr Berlusconi that gave him a fat premium of deputies in parliament two and a half years ago - are unlikely, for every vote risks a new defeat for the government.

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I'm a stickler for detail, and I don't like doing things in half measure.

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