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Senator Robert Kelly (X-Men)
The Politician: Senator Robert Kelly (Bruce Davison), an anti-mutant politician who leads and brews up a fearful and hostile public attitude towards mutants.
He proposes to ban mutant children from schools and supports the Mutant Registration Act.
Slimiest Moment: When Magneto (Ian McKellen) uses a machine to artificially induce a mutation in Kelly, he quite literally becomes the slimiest politician on this list.
Larry Vaughan (Jaws)
The Politician: Mayor of Amity Island Larry Vaughan enjoys wearing hideous nautical-themed blazers and insisting everyone gets in the water.
He also makes a habit of covering up shark attacks and stupidly putting lives at risk by refusing to close the Island's beach as it may ruin the summer tourist season - his town's primary source of income.
Slimiest Moment: The Mayor goes on camera insisting that "a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers" has been caught and the beaches are still open for people to have a "wonderful time" without having had a thorough public necropsy of the dead tiger shark.
Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix)
The Politician: Cornelius Fudge, the Minister of Magic has the huge responsibility of governing the British wizarding world.
The always bowler-hatted, bumbling Fudge is initially favoured and treasured by the wizarding community (he is essentially the Boris Johnson of the HP universe).
However his popularity begins to wain after his bad handling of several events, primarily the return of he-who-must-not-be-named.
Slimiest Moment: A threatened Fudge goes into denial and launches a smear campaign against hero boy wizard Harry and his mentor Dumbledore when they claim that Voldemort has returned.
Senator Palpatine (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)
The Politician: Senator Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) is a cunning politician who rises up on the power scale to due to his deceptiveness and his talent for manipulating people and situations.
Oh, and also his alter ego Darth Sidious, a.k.a The Emperor of the Galactic Empire and most evil man in the galaxy helps.
Slimiest Moment: Palpatine kicks off his rise up the political ladder by ordering an invasion of Naboo as alter ego Sidious.
Then as Senator, he persuades the planet's Queen (Natalie Portman) to make a motion of no confidence in his rival the Supreme Chancellor Valorum, so he can ascend into his position.
It's all a bit much really.
Greg Stillson (The Dead Zone)
The Politician: Charming, hands on Senatorial Candidiate, Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) is set to become the future president of America and will eventually bring about a nuclear holocaust when he's in power.
Don't worry though, psychic schoolteacher Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) is on the case.
Slimiest Moment: Stillson commits political suicide and hits rock bottom in terms of public opinion when while he is under gun fire, he holds up a baby as a human shield.
The President (Love Actually)
The Politician: Billy Bob Thornton is the silver-haired, overly smooth U.S president who pops across the pond for a quick maintenance check on the very 'special relationship' between America and Britain.
His hobbies include leaching on women and attempting to make Britain feel small. Boo.
Slimiest Moment: The President cements his villain status when he inches his hand up the thigh of the Prime Minister's tea and biscuit girl and nation's sweetheart material Natalie (Martine McCutcheon).
Mayor Cole (City Of Ember)
The Politician: Mayor Cole (Bill Murray) is the leader of the post-nuclear war, underground City of Ember.
During a major food and power shortage, he sweeps around the city in a livery collar campaigning under the slogan "You can believe it… because he says it."
While all along he is sneakily hoarding is own supply of canned food.
Slimiest Moment: When feisty teen Lina Mayfleet discovers Cole's secret supply and directly accuses him of stealing food from the people of Ember face-to-face, he casually denies the allegations while eating some of the very same stolen food.
Jasper Irving (Lions For Lambs)
The Politician: Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), a Republican presidential hopeful invites liberal journalist Janine Roth (Meryl Streep) to his office to offer her an exclusive and persaude her to help him announce a new war strategy in Afghanistan.
Slimiest Moment: Irving's entire screen time feels one long slime-fest as he asks Roth to help him "sell the solution" to the war on terror.
Extra slime points are earned for having his Time Magazine front cover framed and hanging up on the wall.
Linton Barwick (In The Loop)
The Politician: Being the best political satire to grace the big screen in recent years, In The Loop is swimming with painfully funny characters running amok in both British and American political circles.
Winner of the slimy label however, is Linton Barwick, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Policy.
Barwick confidently strides around talking in riddles attempting to quietly intimate those around him and keep them out of his business.
Slimiest Moment: Barwick baffles Malcom Tucker and Simon Foster when he exits the room with his parting hallow, faux-poetic phrase "All roads lead to Munich."
In the words of Tucker (a superb Peter Capaldi): "What the fuck does that mean?"
Adam Lang (The Ghost)
The Politician: Ex Prime Minister Adam Lang may have the good looks and smoothness of a former James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) but he also has plenty of skeletons in his closet.
They threaten to all come tumbling out when he is accused of authorising the illegal seizure and torture of suspected terrorists while writing his memoirs.
Slimiest Moment: When the former British Foreign Secretary Richard Rycart (Robert Pugh) accuses Lang of war crimes on national television, Lang lets his charismatic mask slip: narrowing his eyes at his TV set and calling Rycart a "cheeky fuck".
Thomas Jefferson Johnson (The Distinguished Gentleman)
The Politician: Florida con man Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) decides to run for Congress when the current Congressman and his namesake dies of a heart attack.
Johnson uses the dead Congressman's campaign material and gets voted in when enough people vote for the name they recognise.
Slimiest Moment: Johnson's winning speech in which he knowingly strings together a series of senseless catch phrases to sound triumphant.
Starting with "We campaigned on the issue. The issue is change. Change for the future." and finishing with "Read my lips" the speech worryingly feels like it could have been lifted from any political campaign throughout history.
Jay Bullington Bulworth (Bulworth)
The Politician: Senator Jay Bullington Bulworth (Warren Beatty), a veteran Democrat, begins to fall out of favour with voters and thus starts to lose his bid for re-election to a much more appealing, younger opponent.
Unhappy, approaching financial ruin and generally tired of life, Bulworth decides to end it all via a hired assassin and a large life-insurance policy scam.
Slimiest Moment: Aware that the end is nigh, Bulworth decides to go off the rails hitting night clubs and smoking marijuana.
This leads to him embarrassingly rapping a speech on business.
Yes, rapping.
Willie Stark (All The King's Men)
The Politician: Willie Stark (Sean Penn) starts off an idealistic small-town lawyer who is pushed into campaigning to become a Louisiana Governor.
When Stark realises that he was put up to the race to lose, he vows to never be duped again. He runs for Governor a second time eventually wins using any means possible.
Slimiest Moment: Once in power, Stark quickly embraces using corruption and intimidation for his own personal and political gain.
His lowest moment occurs when he demands his friend and advisor Jack Burden (Jude Law) to dig up dirt on his chief critic Judge Irwin (Anthony Hopkins) - the very man that raised up Burden.
The Candidate (1972)
The Politician: Young Democratic Californian lawyer and candidate for senator Bill McKay is probably the least deserving of the slimy tag in this list.
He enters the political race against an unassailable opponent not to win, but to take the opportunity to spread some his ideas and draw attention to some vital issues.
However, when the likelihood of him winning the position appears to change, so does he…
Slimiest Moment: When McKay is in the full throngs of his own self deception, selling out and becoming California's biggest political heartthrob, he has a revealing mini breakdown in the back of a car in which he repeats his nonsense catch phrases to himself: "Vote once, vote twice, vote for Bill McKay… You middle-class honkies!"
The President (Wag The Dog)
The Politician: An unnamed (and barely seen) President of United States gets himself caught in a predicament so scandalous that his spin doctor (Robert De Niro) and a Hollywood movie producer (Dustin Hoffman) have to stage a fake war with Albania to divert the media's attention on the run up to the election.
Slimiest Moment: The initial scandal which prompts the mass media manipulation.
The President gets caught making advances on an underage Firefly girl inside the Oval Office while her troupe are touring the White House.
David Brice (No Way Out)
The Politician: Secretary of Defence David Brice (Gene Hackman) should be focusing on the future of a Navy submarine project but he gets distracted when he discovers his lover Susan is seeing someone else besides him.
He slaps Susan while in a jealous rage, causing her to plunge to her death.
Slimiest Moment: If accidentally killing his lover isn't enough, when he then becomes very much implicated in her murder he shifts the blame to his friend and colleague General counsel Pritchard and falsely exposes him as a sleeper agent after the General commits suicide.
Jack Hathaway (The Contender)
The Politician: Wholesome Virginian Governor and wannabe Vice President Jack Hathaway is hailed as a hero after he dives into a lake in a failed attempt to save a drowning woman.
Therefore no-one is more surprised than him when the President opts to nominate no-name Laine Hanson for the VP spot instead.
Especially as she soon becomes shamed in a sex scandal.
Slimiest Moment: The sickening moment in which the President reveals FBI evidence which shows that Hathaway actually paid the deceased woman to drive off a bridge into the lake in a stunt deliberately engineered to increase his approval ratings.
Senator Aaron McComb (Time Cop)
The Politician: Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) leads the oversight committee of the Time Enforcement Commission - the regularity body combatting the misuse of time travel. However, McComb himself is abusing his position to raise money through the 1929 U.S. stock-market crash for his presidential campaign.
Slimiest Moment: McComb is brimming with his own self-importance when he lectures Time Cop Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme): "I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world and you... you're a fucking idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of himself with all that fancy kicking was on Broadway". Zing.
Bob Roberts (Bob Roberts)
The Politician: Conservative Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) is the all American man: a millionaire businessman, fencing enthusiast , recording artist and a Republican Senatorial candidate.
He leads his campaign urging everyone else to reach for the American dream.
Slimiest Moment: After an assassination attempt supposedly paralyses Roberts from the waist down, he becomes a national martyr and wins his election.
However, he is later seen tapping his feet at his own victory party...
Kim Jong-il (Team America: World Police)
The Politician: Thunderbird-esque puppet and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il's hobbies include raising man eating sharks, supplying international terrorists with weapons of mass destruction and occasionally expressing his loneliness via song.
Slimiest Moment: Jong-il commits a lot of crimes in Team America: World Police but nothing quite as devastating as when he takes out beloved actor Alec Baldwin with an assault rifle.
Bob Rumson (The American President)
The Politician: Republican presidential hopeful Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss) looks a little old and crumpled when he is compared to his Democrat rival, the popular, dreamy, "above average dancer" current President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas).
Slimiest Moment: Rumson seizes his opportunity when Shepherd begins romancing environmental lobbyist Ellen Wade (Annettee Bening).
Delivering a speech in which he refers to Wade as the "hired gun of an ultra-liberal action committee" Rumson makes things really personal when he implies the relationship is detrimental to Shepherd's 12-year-old daughter.
Donald Segretti (All The President's Men)
The Politician: Bending the rules here slightly, as Donald Segretti wasn't a politician.
He was a political operative and the head coordinator of "dirty tricks" for Richard Nixon's pre-Watergate Presidential campaign.
In All The President's Men , a nervy, stripy-knit wearing Sergretti is portrayed by Robert Walden.
Slimiest Moment: As Segretti wasn't involved in the illegal, morally bankrupt fest of Watergate, he almost gains our sympathy when Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) is interrogating him over a cup of coffee.
That is until he believes he's done nothing wrong in distributing forged campaign literature and reveals he did worst things in student election campaigns.
The term he uses for his dirty tactics is "ratfucking".
Mike Morris (The Ides Of March)
The Politician: Mike Morris, Governor of Pennsylvania and a Democratic presidential candidate.
His popularity is on the rise thanks to his squeaky clean image, his star junior campaign manager Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling) and the fact that he played by the king of suaveness Mr George Glooney.
Slimiest Moment: Unfortunately Morris doesn't completely live up to his clean cut persona thrown about on his campaign trail.
He sleeps with Molly (Evan Rachel Wood), a youthful intern from his campaign, causing her to become pregnant.
Councillor Bill Heslop (Muriel's Wedding)
The Politician: Full of himself, Hawaiian shirt wearing Councillor Bill Heslop is not only incredibly corrupt, abusing his town connections, taking and receiving bribes but he is also a very nasty, psychologically abusing family man to boot.
Slimiest Moment : Bill bullies and humiliates his whole family, branding them "useless no-hopers" while out dining with Japanese business associates.
He then invites his mistress to to join them, unsubtly flaunting their obvious relationship.
Dr Stephen Fleming (Damage)
The Politician: British cabinet minister Dr Stephen Fleming (Jeremy Irons) has it all: a successful career and a loving family.
The sensible everyman puts all this on the line however when he engages in an affair with his son's girlfriend, the seductive and mysterious Anna (Juliette Binoche).
Slimiest Moment: Predictably it all goes horribly wrong for Fleming and eventually he is left all alone, still consumed by a woman who ruined his career, tour his family apart and indirectly killed his son.
He stews in his own sliminess staring at a blown-up picture of Anna in his apartment. Creepy.
Jafar (Aladdin)
The Politician: Jafar is the Grand Vizier to the Sultan of Agrabah.
Power hungry and far from satisfied with his current position he consistently schemes ways to overthrow the Sultan with his foul-mouthed talking pet parrot.
He also happens to be an evil sorcerer to boot.
Slimiest Moment: Being pure evil means Jafar brings plenty of slimy moments to the film but his worst are probably when he is leering over the Sultan's daughter and Aladdin's girl Jasmine and demanding the Genie to make her fall in love with him.
Senator Vernon Trent (Hard To Kill)
The Politician: Trilby wearing, bribe taking, catch-phrase welding Senator Vernon Trent (William Sadler) adds murderous destruction to his list of crimes when he takes on Hard to Kill Detective Mason Storm (Steven Seagal) after he is secretly videotaped completing one of his dirty deals.
Slimiest Moment: Trent's campaign commercial in which his rolls out his trade mark quip: "And you can take that to the bank."
Never fear however, our man Storm is even wittier: "I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!" Hurrah.
Michael Brinn (Divorcing Jack)
The Politician: Michael Brinn (Robert Lindsay) is a charismatic war hero and candidate running for Prime Minister in Northern Ireland.
He possesses strong public support since he was a victim of a terrorist bombing in which he suffered 30% burns.
Slimiest Moment: Several of Brinn's dirty little secrets are threatened to be let loose when a tape of him discussing his crimes is unwittingly sold to a priest: it turns out Brinn planted the bombs in the terrorist attack that he claimed to be a victim of.
Bob Alexander (Dave)
The Politician: Ambitious White House Chief of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) convinces president look-a-like Dave to assume to the leader of the country's position when the real President slips into a coma.
Alexander then sets out on a scheme to work himself into the hot seat.
Slimiest Moment: Alexander sinks pretty low when he falsely implicates the Vice President in a savings and loan fraud but it's when Dave becomes uncontrollable he really gets nasty.
In a mad rant he claims he could kill Dave because he's not the president, he's "an ordinary person."
George W. Bush (Fahrenheit 9/11)
The Politician: George W. Bush, real life 43rd President of the United States and former Governor of Texas, famous for leading America through 9/11 and announcing and initiating the global "War on Terror".
Liberal political commentator Michael Moore paints a very grim picture of Bush in Fahrenheit 9/11 , implicating him in election fraud, exploring his connections to the bin Laden family and alleging he actively induced a climate of fear in America via the mass media.
Slimiest Moment: When Bush's Chief of Staff informs him the second plane and has hit the Twin Towers a Brush continues with his photo opportunity, reading 'My Pet Goat' while Moore's narration lists the President's possible failures leading up to the attack.
Stephen Collins (State Of Play)
The Politician: Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck), Congressman of Pennsylvania appears to be left devastated when his young and talented lead researcher and secret lover apparently commits suicide.
He looks to his old friend Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) for support when his wife kicks him out and reporters set up camp outside his home as the details of his infidelity unfolds in the press.
Slimiest Moment: When the suicide is ruled to be murder, Collins agrees to go on record for his friend McAffrey implicating military contractor Point Corp as responsible.
Except they're not responsible. He is.
Merkin Muffley (Dr Strangelove)
The Politician: American President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) is probably a little too indecisive and a little too inexperienced for his position. He is really put on the spot when one of his Air Force Generals paranoid Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) decides to take out the USSR, fearing they are tampering with the nations body fluids.
Slimiest Moment: When Muffley puts in the all important call to the Soviet Premier to break the bad news: "one of our base commanders, he had a sort of... well, he went a little funny in the head... you know... just a little... funny. And, ah... he went and did a silly thing... Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes... to attack your country". Strong leadership.
Bruno Hempf (The Lives Of Others)
The Politician: Bruno Hempf (Thomas Thieme), the Minister of Culture of East Germany possesses a strong influence over the country's secret police and also a burning infatuation with a popular actress Christa-Maria Sieland.
Hempf takes his obsession with Christa to the extreme: setting up surveillance on her playwright boyfriend Georg Dreyman to rid himself of his romantic rival.
Slimiest Moment: When Hempf meets Christa for the first time he makes his feelings clear by sliding his hand all over her backside right under the nose of Dreyman.
Vilos Cohaagen (Total Recall)
The Politician: Governor of the Mars Colony Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox), is as corrupt and ruthless as politicians come and will stop at nothing to keep mining valuable turbinium ore and risking innocent lives in the process.
Slimiest Moment: Cohaagen's former top agent Hauser (Arnold Schwarzenegger) goes rogue with his new persona Quaid yet unwittingly leads Cohaagen to his goal: the leader of the Mars resistance.
After Cohaagen achieves want he wants, he orders Quaid's memory to be re-implanted to original Hauser and orders Quaid's lover Melina to reprogrammed as Hauser's slave. Literally playing God.
Edmond Zuwanie (The Interpreter)
The Politician: Edmond Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), president of fictional African county Matobo and corrupt dictator is called to the United Nations as he faces indiction to stand trial in the International Criminal Court for executing ethic cleansing and other crimes against humanity.
Slimiest Moment: In a bid to gain world sympathy and win political support a head of his possible trial, Zuwanie has a fake assassin attempt on his life staged. Sneaky.
Joe Cantwell (The Best Man)
The Politician: Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson), a confident, populist leading candidate for a presidential nomination and a self declared man of the people believes he'll have no trouble taking on his straight-lace, more intellectual opponent William Russell (Henry Fonda).
Slimiest Moment: Cantwell makes things personal, privately targeting Russell where it hurts with illegally-obtained psychological reports covering the full extent of his opponent's past nervous breakdown.
Napoleon (Animal Farm)
The Politician: It doesn't take long for ruthless, antagonist boar Napoleon to take out the competition with his goon squad of puppies and assert himself as the leader of Animal Farm once the animals revolt and drive away the drunken owner Mr Jones.
Slimiest Moment: When Napoleon starts dressing in a suit adorned with medals and reduces the animal's Seven Commandments to one single phrase: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
Richard Nixon (Frost/Nixon)
The President: 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) became the only president to ever resign from office after a significant loss of political support when the full extent of his Watergate scandal emerged.
Months after his resignation in return for a healthy fee he agrees to a series of sit down interviews with British broadcast journalist David Frost (Martin Sheen).
Slimiest Moment: Naturally the shamed and explosive Nixon has dozens of slimy moments throughout this film but the one that probably tops the list is when he delivers a slight variation on the now famous line
"When the President does it, it's not illegal."
Michael Rimmer (The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer)
The Politician: Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) mysteriously shows up at an advertising agency one day and somehow convinces everyone he is supposed to be there.
Not only that but he also manages to quickly acquire control of the business.
He soon moves into politics, becoming an MP and eventually Prime Minister - all the while depending on just his charisma and the occasional murder to get him there.
Slimiest Moment: Rimmer dupes Britain into voting for him to become a presidential dictator after he exposes the country to an extreme referendum government.
He proposes this dictatorial option in casual campaign video as he strolls along the beach with his trophy wife.
Ambassador of Mars (Mars Attacks!)
The Politician: The ambassador of Mars and leader of the Martians who invade Earth and bring about devastation. Appears to enjoy killing people and destroying everything.
Slimiest Moment: When likeable President Dale (Jack Nicholson) attempts to smooth over the "cultural misunderstanding" of the the martians violent arrival with a hand shake, the Mars ambassador's hand comes off, crawls on to the president and stabs him to death. Dirty tricks indeed.
Tracy Flick (Election)
The Politician: Driven overachieving high school student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is pretty, blonde, intelligent, and just wants to get into a good college.
Or that's what she would like you to think.
Tracy actually harbours a secret vindictive and sexual side which begins to emerge during her ruthless campaign for student body president.
Slimiest Moment: From seducing teachers to tearing down election posters, Tracy really is no angel.
However, she is particularly skin-crawling when dishing out her 'Pick Flick' cupcakes.
Mr Eugene Helpmann (Brazil)
The Politician: Deputy Minister of information Mr Eugene Helpmann (Peter Vaughan) is very quickly summed up in the first couple of minutes of Brazil .
The well-spoken, moustached politician appears on a flaming television set in a interview being broadcast to the nation in which he dismisses the cause of terrorism as down to "bad sportsmanship" and wishes everyone a merry Christmas.
Slimiest Moment: When Helpmann's face swings into Sam Lowry's (Jonathan Pryce) closing escapist fantasy and dully announces "He got away from us Jack" before being casually wheeled away from the catatonic Lowry.
Adenoid Hynkel (The Great Dictator)
The Politician: Adenoid Hynkel (Charlie Chaplin in his first true 'talkie' role) is the ruthless dictator of Tomainia, an extreme fascist and persecutor of Jews.
He also has a knack for slapstick and physical comedy. When he is alone he enjoys dancing around with his inflatable globe and fantasising about being the Emperor of the world.
Slimiest Moment: When the inventor of a hat which supposedly turns into a parachute plunges to his death while demonstrating it, Hynkel turns to his officers and asks why they waste his time with such things. Cold.
Senator Eleanor Shaw (The Manchurian Candidate)
The Politician: Much more terrifying then her predecessor Angela Lansbury (from the original adaptation), Meryl Streep is Senator Eleanor Shaw, a powerful, dangerously ambitious politician and an even scarier pushy mother.
With her no nonsense attitude, extreme power-dressing and the slickest of Hilary Clinton up-dos, she will stop at nothing to see her congressman son become President.
Slimiest Moment: When Shaw rants that she'll do what ever is takes to protect her son, what she really means is she'll do whatever it takes to protect everything she has been working towards.
However, an even sinister and disturbing side of her relationship with her brain-washed son emerges when she bathes, kisses and caresses him in an uncomfortably intimate manner.
General Idi Amin (The Last King Of Scotland)
The Politician: General Idi Amin (Oscar-winning Forest Whitaker) is the Ugandan president who leads the country after he overthrows his predecessor Milton Obote.
Amin quickly becomes a militant dictator abusing human rights and exercising extrajudicial punishments and xenophobia in his rule.
He also ostracises his third wife because she gave birth to an epileptic son.
Slimiest Moment: When Amin discovers his friend and personal physician Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) had an affair with his third wife, he has Garrigan tortured: his chest is pierced with meat hooks and he is hung by his own skin.
Joseph Paine (Mr Smith Goes To Washington)
The Politician: Joseph Paine is a generally well-loved, held in high public esteem Senator.
He takes under his wing his late best friend's naive and idealistic son Jefferson Smith, who has just been plucked from being Head of the Boy Rangers to become the Junior Senator of their state.
Slimiest Moment: Unfortunately Senator Paine is secretly crooked and becomes involved in a scheme to crucify the Junior Senator when Smith proposes a bill that clashes with a dishonourable bill of his own.
Granted, Paine does see the moral light in the end but it's not until after he has ground Smith down to a pulp on the Senate floor, bringing in bins of letters and telegrams from average, everyday people demanding Smith's expulsion.
Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
The Politician: It's difficult to be mad at former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she is being portrayed by darling, Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep who spends a good chunk of the film stumbling around her house looking for her long dead husband.
Slimiest Moment: Difficult but not impossible. Streep's Thatcher is not so much slimy as bloody terrifying.
In one particular scene she dresses down her cabinet, ranting about "slackers" who "contribute nothing to the community".
She then scolds and humiliates Geoffrey Howe like a school boy because of his spelling errors in the timetable. Yikes.
The Minister of the Interior (A Clockwork Orange)
The Politician: The Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp) uses prisoners as test subjects for the disturbing: "Ludovico technique" - an experimental aversion therapy which involves drugging subjects, clamping their eyes open and forcing them to watch violence in an attempt to cure them of their violent tendencies.
Slimiest Moment: The Minister visits Alex, a graduate and victim of the Ludovico technique in hospital after he fails to reenter society.
The Minister, concerned with securing Alex's cooperation with PR campaign to smooth over the experiment's messy aftermath, hand-feeds the crippled patient, promising him a job and a bright future.
Adam Sutler (V for Vendetta)
The Politician: High Chancellor Adam Sutler, a former Conservative MP and Under-Secretary for Defence, leads the extreme right-wing Norsefire party.
A pure fascist and cold dictator, Sutler controls Britain with a tight iron grip.
He also chooses to live in an underground bunker in self-imposed exile, addressing his lieutenants via television.
Slimiest Moment: Having secretly and deliberately co-ordinated the bio-terrorist attacks that lead Britain to become a totalitarian state, Sutler was always a power-hungry bad egg.
His sliminess erupts to high levels when his power is threatened and he demands extreme fear mongering from his television set: "I want this country to realise that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want everyone to remember why they need us!"
Adolf Hitler (Downfall)
The Politician: Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). An Austrian-born German politician, leader of the Nazi Party and a horrific dictator responsible for millions of deaths.
Slimiest Moment: In a now a famous scene as a result of its endless Internet parodies, the original furious Hitler tirade actually shows the leader in a most disgusting and desperate state when he finally realises that the war has definitely been lost for Germany.


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The Neutralizing Antibody Scientific Research Support Component will provide essential laboratory and scientific support for CHAVI- by performing high throughput assessments of neutralizing activity against tier 1 and tier 2 reference HlV-1 strains in standardized and validated assays. In addition, we will map the epitopes of broadly neutralizing sera and mAbs, monitor vaccine-elicited nAb responses to identify improved immunogens, adjuvants and vectors, and delineate nAbs as a correlate of protection using breakthrough viruses from phase 2b trials.
Specific Aims Aim 1. To support CHAVI-ID research by defining the magnitude and breadth (M-B) of neutralizing activity in sera from select clinical groups, and by mapping the epitopes of broadly neutralizing sera.
Aim 2. To support CHAVI-ID research by screening memory B cell culture supernatants to identify nAb-producing B cells.
Aim 3. To support CHAVI-ID research by characterizing new mAbs for magnitude and breadth of neutralizing activity and epitope specificity.
Aim 4. To support CHAVI-ID research by monitoring the magnitude and breadth of vaccine-elicited nAbs in animals, human vaccinees, and by assessing vaccine sera neutralization with viruses from vaccine breakthrough infections in humans.
Immunogens that elicit broadly cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies may be important for effective vaccination against HlV-1. Vaccines are the most effective and affordable intervention to control the spread of infectious diseases such as AIDS.
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ABMS/ACGME Competencies
This course is designed to meet one or more of the following American Board of Medical Specialties/ Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education competencies:
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|Small new potatoes
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|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1⁄4 Teaspoon
|Ground black pepper
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Calories 204 Calories from Fat 66
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Total Fat 8 g11.6%
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Trans Fat 0 g
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:21 PM GMT on August 02, 2006
Chris continues to become better organized, and may become a hurricane later today. The latest hurricane hunter eye report at 7:09am EDT found flight level winds of 67 knots, which translates to about 60-65 mph at the surface. There are upper level lows to Chris' east and west, and Chris is embedded in a low shear zone of 10-15 knots between these two lows. The lows are helping enhance the upper-level outflow from the storm. The satellite presentation of Chris has improved substantially, and we now see a more symmetrical storm that is not sucking in so much of the dry air surrounding it. Radar from San Juan, Puerto Rico, shows an eye-like feature developing (Figure 1). Chris is over warm 29-30 C water that is favorable for intensification. The key question, as always, is wind shear. Chris is a small storm that is very vulnerable to wind shear. Any movement of Chris towards either of the upper level lows surrounding it will bring hostile wind shear that will weaken the storm. However, the current model forecasts call for Chris to maintain its position exactly between these lows, and for the shear to drop to 5-10 knots. The most likely ranges for Chris' intensity on Sunday when it is expected to be near Florida range from weak tropical storm (45 mph) to strong Category 2 hurricane (110 mph).
Figure 1.Latest long-range radar image from Jan Juan, Puerto Rico.
Path of Chris
The recent record heat wave over the Eastern U.S. means that the Bermuda High is extending further west than usual, creating a blocking ridge of high pressure that will prevent Chris from recurving to the north in the next five days. The GFS, NOGAPS, UKMET, Canadian, and European models all agree on a west-northwest track taking Chris north of the Dominican Republic and Cuba, into the Bahama Islands, then into Florida or just south of Florida by Sunday. The lone outlier model is the usually reliable GFDL, which takes Chris into the Dominican Republic. For now, NHC is discounting the GFDL. I would not cancel any travel plans for Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic this week, but those of you planning on visiting the Bahamas may want to rethink those plans.
It now appears likely that Chris will enter the Gulf of Mexico early next week and be a threat to the Gulf Coast. There is a trough of low pressure that will be moving across the Eastern U.S. on Monday that may turn Chris more to the north; high pressure is then forecast to build in on Tuesday and force Chris back to the west-northwest. Given this forecast, there is no region of the Gulf Coast that can assume Chris will miss them.
The "curse" of Chris
This is not the first time a tropical storm named Chris has come. There were storms named Chris in 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2000. Each time, Chris has been an insignificant storm that either never made it to hurricane strength, or in one case, barely made it to hurricane strength but stayed out to sea and never had a nice photogenic appearance. However, the 2000 incarnation of Chris did set a record--shortest amount of time as a tropical storm. Chris in 2000 lasted just one advisory before wind shear tore it apart. I've happily needled my friend Dr. Chris Landsea, Science and Operations Officer at the National Hurricane Center, every six years about this "curse" of Chris. He's always pretty cheerful about it, saying it was a good curse to have. Well, I'm hoping that the "curse" of storms named Chris continues this year, and I can happily tell Chris he'll have to wait until 2012 to get that nice-looking eye that a storm named Chris has never had!
Elsewhere in the tropics
Nothing else is happening in the tropical Atlantic, although most of the computer models are predicting a new tropical depression may develop off the coast of Africa this weekend.
This will probably be my last blog on Chris for several days, as I promised my family I would take off at least two days this August. This is the time that it worked out to be. Hurricanes are not respecters of the best-laid plans of humans! I'll be back to blogging on Saturday, and wunderground.com meteorologist Shaun Tanner will update my blog in my absence. He's on the west coast, so these updates will not come as early in the morning.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Rich Talarico, a producer of "Key & Peele" on Comedy Central and former writer for Saturday Night Live, is performing tonight (Sunday, Nov. 30) at La Nuit Comedy Theater on Freret Street. Continue reading »
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Danae arrived in Arkansas just in time for the annual Thanksgiving dinner at The Brookfield, where Vera, her 88-year old mother, resides. A place card on the table proclaimed "I am thankful for Vera." It made her also reflect on the many things in New Orleans we are thankful for this year. Continue reading »
An unidentified woman was found stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon in a garbage can in an alleyway that runs behind several homes on Danneel Street in Central City, New Orleans police say. Continue reading »
My 11-year-old son used his allowance to purchase a BB gun at Academy Sports & Outdoors on a shopping trip with his grandfather a few weeks ago.
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About 7:15 p.m., the suspect entered a Metro PCS located in the 4100 block of Washington Avenue and pointed a gun at the cashier, according to an initial police report. Continue reading »
The Soul Rebels, students from the Trombone Shorty Academy, and a Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews will play a free concert at Tulane's McAlister Auditorium next week, with a suggested donation of a new toy that will be given to children from the Treme neighborhood during the holiday season. Continue reading »
Fresh cut, Frasier fir Christmas trees, wreaths and fresh garland arrive this week at First UU Church located at 5212 Claiborne Ave. (at Jefferson). This holiday tradition goes back over 25 years in Uptown New Orleans. All proceeds go to support First UU Church and its various social justice and community service programs.
Aldous Huxley once wrote that "a fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt." This helps explain the bizarrely-detailed 25 page anti-smoking ordinance proposed this past Thursday by Councilwomen Latoya Cantrell and Susan Guidry.
Even I didn't predict the staggering scope of the ordinance. Instead of being content to simply ban most indoor smoking, already a contentious proposal, the bill seeks to ban most outdoor smoking as well and treats electronic cigarettes, which produce no smoke, the same way as traditional cigarettes. It contains no exceptions for hookah lounges or cigar bars. Continue reading »
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On Saturday, the 6th annual Second District Blues festival was held in Palmer Park, on the corner of Carrollton and Claiborne. Its a festival benefiting COPS 2, Citizens Organization for Police Support 2. The festival featured music by Joe Krown, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and Russell Batiste Jr., Mia Borders, Big Sam's Funky Nation and the Stooges Brass Band. There were many dining options including the Praline Connection, Ms. Linda's Yakamein and Crepes A la Carte. Different arts and crafts were available for purchase as well. One of the more unique things about Saturday's festival was its association with the LASPCA and other dog adoption groups like the Louisiana Boxer Group.


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For revving up web programming—and online advertising.
Jerry Seinfeld's high-concept web show chronicles him picking up various comedians (Chris Rock, SarahSilverman, Howard Stern) in notable, old automobiles (a 1969 Lamborghini Miura, a 1959 Fiat 600 Jolly) and engaging them in amusing banter over delicious caffeinated beverages. But it is viewers who are feeling the rush. Since it debuted in 2012, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, as it's aptly titled, has become a hit for Sony's digital-only Crackle network, racking up more than 35 million views as it has grown into a web phenomenon. And Seinfeld isn't just the host. Starting with season 3, which premiered in January, he has also been the driving force (along with Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld) behind the unusually entertaining Acura ads that frame each episode. Here, he shows us what's under the hood.
Fast Company: You could work on anything you wanted. Why this?
Seinfeld: The only thing that appeals to me is being shot into an unknown universe. If I were to walk into a major network and say, "I have an idea for a TV series," no matter what the idea is, so much has already been decided before I even walk in that door. We know it's going to be 21 minutes and 45 seconds. We know how we're going to promote it. We know too much. The most fun game is one you've never played and you're inventing as you go along.
Why create your own Acura ads for the show?
I kind of like advertising, and did some in the '90s for American Express. It just seems like the Internet is screaming at artists to be creative. It's like an art-supply store: You walk in, and there's paper and cameras and paint and pencils. It's like someone throwing down the gauntlet.
How do you put the ads together? Do you crank them out while watching the Mets game?
When I'm watching the Mets game I don't do anything else: I'm watching the game. But when the ads come on I get nauseous. It's just horrible. To me, car advertising was another venue that was suffocating from a lack of creativity.
How did you tackle that?
By making bad ads on purpose [laughs]. The premise was, we transport a 2014 Acura back to an incompetent ad agency in 1965. A lot of the verbiage in there is real stuff from the '60s. I mean, "out to impress" was a very common phrase in the '60s in advertising. Nobody talks like that anymore, but in the '60s that's how they talked about cars. "We're out to impress."
In the Tina Fey episode, you asked what she would love to be doing in a year. I'm going to ask you the same question.
Acura and I have just made a new deal to make more shows [season 4 premieres later this year] and commercials. I was intending to make 10 [episodes], just as a thing to do. Now people really want to be on the show. In the beginning I had to explain to them what it was.
But now it feels timely.
I don't think I could've done it even a year or two before I did. You had to have this thing where everybody's walking around with TVs in their pocket. People expect things on the Internet to be very personal. I went through a period a couple of years ago where I was obsessed with Timberland. I started looking up videos that people make of themselves unboxing new Timberland boots.
I don't want to use sexual terminology, but there's something pornographic about it. It's the sound of the paper, the lacing up of the boots, the boot on the wood floor, the squeak sound. I love these videos. That very personal microniche that the Internet world created—it's like a honeycomb with millions of hexagonal cells, and you're just interested in four. That seemed like a fun place to play. "I like taking videos of coffee and cars and comedians. Maybe I could weave them into something." It's not really a show. I used to say it's an antishow about a nonevent.
And you don't say that anymore?
No, it still is. [Laughs]
A version of this article appeared in the June 2014 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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Kola is a "food-drug"—like coffee, tea, coca, and tobacco—a substance considered neither food nor medicine, but used to induce "flights of fancy." It is incorporated into rites of passage and ceremonies to cement treaties and contracts; its medicinal properties were first recognized outside Africa in the twelfth century; and it is a legal and popular stimulant among West African Muslims.
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Created attachment 626404 [details]
Testcase for shell
The attached testcase asserts on ionmonkey revision d5545e6d927b (run with --ion -n).
As discussed with jandem already, the testcase here is highly fragile and might not reproduce easily. It might also be necessary to use --ion-eager.
Created attachment 626462 [details] [diff] [review]
We discussed this a bit on IRC, I don't know the code very well but it seems the assert should use <= instead of <.
If we have the following jumps:
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Then (extendedJumpTable_ + i * SizeOfJumpTableEntry) is 32 for i == 2. In this case size() - SizeOfJumpTableEntry is also 32.
Given that the patch simply changes the assert we're saying there's no possible security bug here, right?
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Serra Andras breathes in deep. The sea air was the same everywhere, but it always reminded her of something fresh, something new. Riordan would have chuckled, that rich sound that spread through the recruits and warmed them all on some base level. She misses him already.
Turning away from the bow of the boat, she considers her position. Commander of the Grey Wardens. It sounds ludicrous, even now. And in Ferelden... Maker, she had never thought she would ever see any pastures other than those of Orlais! And on top of that, she was to be– No, she could not even think it. She was an elf; things like nobility simply did not happen to people like her.
She can still picture Riordan's glare and stern words. You are not an elf, you are a Grey Warden. You are no more and no less than anyone else here, do you understand that? And it was true. The men and women who had arrived the week before her would not see her ears or her tattoos, but the griffon on her armour and the steel at her back. They would see a commander. The people of Amaranthine, however...
Yes, she thinks as the breeze ruffles her pale locks, it will be difficult with the native souls. The people of Ferelden had memories as long as the elves – they did not forgive the occupation easily, and she could not fault them that. And on top of that, she was to be in a position of power, appointed by their new king – Alistair, himself a Grey Warden! She would have to suffer gossip, unsavoury comments, maybe even hostile attacks. But, she reasons with a smile, they're probably still nicer than our citizens.
The woman who meets her at the docks smiles brightly. "Warden-Commander!"
"Oui, that is me." She returns the smile. "I was not expecting an escort."
"I was sent as a guide more than anything. My name is Mhairi, and can I say it's a real honour to meet you." She bows, far lower than Serra expects.
"Ah, please... no need for formalities with me, Mhairi. We are to be travelling together, I would not have you stand on ceremony. My name is Serra." She turns to grab the few belongings that had not already been sent, but the woman stoops to pick them up. "Is this what you feel is expected of you, Mademoiselle Mhairi? I am... unused to such help."
"But you're the Commander. And you've come such a long way, and we've still got a day's travel ahead of us!" She insists, that bright smile still in place. Serra opens her mouth to argue the point, but something occurs to her. She is not treating you like an elf. Isn't that the point? She shakes her head slightly and gestures for her to lead the way.
"Tell me of the Keep. Is it a grand building?"
It is chaos.
They fight their way into the Keep – a building that on any other day would have her fascinated – but right now, they struggle just to stay alive. Mhairi proves herself to be far more than just a guide, a fact for which Serra is grateful, as they blaze a path through to the shelter of the courtyard. They manage to best an ogre, no mean feat for two warriors unaccustomed to each other's styles, and urge the few survivors they find to get out. Serra sees no familiar faces, and worries.
They press forward and stumble upon a man commanding fire with his fingertips. Alarm bells begin to sound in Serra's head. Mage. Magic. Unfamiliar. Run.
He turns, catching their eyes, and looks decidedly sheepish for a moment. "Uh... I didn't do it."
She balks, skidding back across the room. "Stay back," she orders, and there is a strange look in his eyes before he sighs, shoulders slumping.
"I get it. Raaargh, scary apostate, down with the evil ones. I'm really not that terrifying, am I?" This is directed at Mhairi, who draws her sword. "Okay. Apparently I am." He puts his hands up, smiling nervously. "I really, really don't mean you any harm. Promise."
"Commander?" Mhairi spares her a brief glance. "Are you alright?"
The Warden stares at the mage for a long time, remaining silent as her heartbeat starts to slow down. Her eyes meet his. The familiar drum of panic begins again. Run. Run and hide. Magic. But there is no mother to run screaming to, no Riordan to hide behind now – never again. She must face her demons alone. "Mes apologies," she says after a long moment. "I am fine." She does not look it, still far too pale and wide-eyed, but she takes a few steps forward. "I am... nervous, around men of magic," she adds. "It is a long story. Perhaps one for another time."
The man blinks, before smiling genially. "I might just hold you to that, if you don't throw me to the Templars. My name is Anders, dear lady." He offers a short bow. "And if it's quite alright with you, I'd like to stick by your side. You seem to be quite capable of killing these monsters, and I've no intention of dying any time soon."
She nods assent, though she is still trembling slightly as Mhairi rests a a hand on her shoulder. "Very well. Stay where I can see you, s'il vous plaît."
The dwarf considers her for a moment before grunting. "Your hair looks funny."
The mage makes a quip about drunken dwarves, and for a moment the banter passes between her companions and the red-headed fighter – enough time for her to pull herself up to her full height. "What exactly are you doing here?"
"Fightin' darkspawn, same as you I reckon. You the new commander?"
"Oui. And who are you?"
"Orlesian, huh? Hope you're better than the last one they sent. He wasn't too good at staying alive," he snickers, and Serra feels a fire start in the pit of her stomach. "Name's Oghren the Magnificent. Thought I'd try my hand at being a bona fide Grey Warden." She scowls, but her resources right now are few and she could use his axe.
"With me. Come, all of you." The three fall in line behind her as they work their way towards the battlements, and mercifully there is no more frivolous talk, their energies poured into blasting the darkspawn from the world.
Mhairi is the first to spot the injured man, and is close to tears as he warns them of the terrors that lie ahead. Serra's blood runs cold at the mention of a talking darkspawn, and though the mage and the dwarf both suggest drink for the pain, she is not blind to his suffering. Kneeling down and whispering a soft prayer to the Maker, as she puts him out of his misery. Mhairi almost objects, but one glance at the commander and she is silent, mouthing her own prayer. They press on.
As the cold night air hits them, there is a voice in the air, one that has not known human speech in a long time. It grates like a rusty wheel on an axle, a constant dirge of rough words and growls, and they hang back, observing the user for a moment. The man at the mercy of the talking darkspawn is not a face she recognises, but beside her Mhairi tenses up. Clearly a man of importance. And as he glances at her, her title uttered under such duress, she hopes to bring him out of this alive just to find out who he is.
The darkspawn lunges for her companions, but she intercepts, and the three make light work of his lackeys. He is a different breed, however, and it is only with the help of the mage and the dwarf that he is felled.
Mhairi rushes to the man's side, hauling him up to his feet.
"Varel, are you hurt?" Ah, the seneschal. No wonder he knew of her. He smiles, shaking his head, before turning to Serra.
"Commander, I owe you my life." He begins to bow, but she grabs his shoulders.
"I think formalities can wait, non?"
Behind her, Oghren grunts, and they turn to look out towards the road, following his gaze.
"Looks like more company's on the way," he mutters.
"Oh, Maker, it's the sodding king." Anders looks like he wants to melt into the ground.
Oghren chuckles. "He ain't so bad, once you get to know him."
Serra takes a deep breath. Five minutes in this country and already meeting the king! He smiles as he approaches, though she does not miss the unnerved look in his eyes as he examines the scene.
"Looks like we're a little late. Shame... I rather miss the whole darkspawn-killing thing."
"Your majesty," she murmurs, bowing low. The rest of her companions follow suit – except the dwarf, who struts up to the man and huffs.
"Evenin', pike-twirler."
"Oh, so there's no beer left then?" he laughs, shaking his hand, and Oghren chuckles before stepping back. "And you must be the new Commander from Orlais. Seems you have quite the task ahead of you." There is no mirth in his voice at that. "What exactly happened here?"
Varel steps forward. "Your majesty, the attack was sudden and bloody. There are a few survivors, thanks to the commander, but the Grey Wardens we could find are all dead."
"The ones you could find?" Serra interrupts, confused.
"All I know is that we cannot account for all of them," he replies, looking troubled.
Anders looks slightly sick. "Why would they take prisoners?"
Suddenly, a harsh voice cracks across them like a whip. "You!"
The female Templar steps forward and snaps at Anders, and the king looks at her askance. Serra ducks her eyes – Chantry business is, after all, sacred and not to be interfered with. Still, he did save your life and he could have just run...
"I'll see you hanged for what you did here, murderer!"
"You cannot!" Serra is more surprised than anyone to hear her own voice. "I invoke the Right of Conscription." Alistair's eyebrows quirk up, and Anders looks like her head is about to fall off. The Templar looks like she wants to kill her.
"You can't just -"
"I believe the Commander can," notes the king in a tone that means business. "Ser Rylock, I think it is time we left. Inform the men." She glares once more at the mage before turning and heading back to the rest of the soldiers. Alistair smiles slightly. "You know, I almost became a Templar, before the Wardens saved me. I think that's why I love winding them up."
Anders reaches to touch her shoulder, looking thoroughly boggled. "You saved me. You're terrified of me and yet you still saved my life. Why?"
"Monsieur, I am scared of your power. That does not mean that you should have to die, non?" She brushes off his hand and gestures for Varel and her companions to leave. The king looks at her with worried eyes.
"I am sorry for your losses, and the troubles that are still to come. I think we're going to be relying a little heavily on you in the upcoming weeks, especially for the security of this arling. Whatever's going on here... you need to stop it. And I wish I could help, I really do, but I'm royalty first, it seems, and a Grey Warden second."
She inclines her head slightly. "I understand, your majesty."
"Oh, please don't call me that. I'm getting sick of hearing it, to tell you the truth. Just Alistair will do."
"Very well. Then I would have you call me Serra, brother," she smiles, and he grins.
"Nice to meet you, Serra. Do keep me up-to-date, won't you? I'm sure it'll be a lovely break from all that ruling I have to do." He bows to her, a gesture of equals, and she mirrors him, before watching as he heads back to his retinue.
He is right, she realises. There is so much to do.
A:N: With much love and thanks to valiasedai, my wonderful beta, and Crisium, my brilliant cheerleader and sounding board.