There are rumors that Silvio Berlusconi, like the phoenix of old, is rising from the ashes and closing the gap, perhaps forcing the necessity of an alliance with his rivals and Prime Minister Mario Monti.

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"If Apple gets this supported, it has a shot at rising like a phoenix from the ashes in the world of multimedia computing, " says Steven Vonder Haar, a media analyst with the Yankee Group.

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Johnstone, the filmmaker behind "Rising From Ashes, " recalled how Adrien and his teammates used to shave the bottoms off soccer cleats to make their own bike shoes.

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By and large, the phoenixes rising from these ashes are nonunion.

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