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...In the only significant subplot, seismologist Paul Giamatti tries to stop the Hoover Dam (or lookalike) turning to tumbling hardscrabble — no luck there — before retreating to his lab to disseminate early...
...Meanwhile, Nicolas Sarkozy in France is in thrall to nobody but Carla Bruni. I was more intrigued by parallels between the House of Clinton and Gordon Brown, son of a Scottish manse....
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