The emails start as they continue: With Weiss repeatedly dousing Weiner with ego-stroking flattery.

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The hospitality and the flattery worked a treat with two successive prime ministers.

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Mr Harper, with a strong western base, has tried to woo Quebec with extra cash and much political flattery, hoping to raise his party's current haul of 11 of the province's 75 seats in the 308-member House of Commons.

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But on that day, my attempt at flattery did not go over very well with one of my students.

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His flattery of stars-to-be was as nothing compared with his wooing of his Hollywood favourites.

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The Atlas' flattery isn't perfectly executed, however -- the gamepad's shoulder buttons depress with a noticeably loud click and its triggers feel somewhat cheap when directly compared to Microsoft's original levers.

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We can hope that the Bush gush was flattery intended to show the U.S. president to be nonthreatening as his administration presses ahead with a missile defense.

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