In the meantime Commissar Monti is claiming precisely the opposite and is trying to claw back powers so rudely taken from him.

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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a major photographer, a pioneering gallery owner, a generous collector, a self-appointed cultural commissar and a compulsive polemicist.

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"We didn't have to go to the dike today, " says Commissar Wong.

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Moreover, Mrs Merkel was keen to dampen emotions after her officials floated the idea of placing the country under a commissar with the power to reject Greek budgets.

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At the heart of the Yale- and Bocconi University-educated economics professor, there rages a battle between the heroic Super Mario and his evil twin, Commissar Monti, each side trying to get the upper hand.

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