His management stunts like hiring midgets to perform at company Halloween parties rubbed Adobe the wrong way.

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The problem is that Italy's biggest banks are midgets compared with the largest in Germany, France and Britain.

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With him gone, the hour of the midgets will strike.

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They are midgets compared with their American or European counterparts.

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They may be accompanied by glamorous women or costumed midgets.

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Food for thought: Wolf pointed out that China (20%) and India (8%) were both still only small fractions of the GDP of the U.S. In other words, the emerging economies are fast growing midgets versus the slow growing giant.

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They're just a lot of, you know, something for everybody and they contained a little bit of everything, really: you know, guys in masks and beautiful women in skimpy costumes and evil villains and sports cars, lounge lizard numbers, midgets.

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All the same, the proportional system for choosing a quarter of the seats, which allowed so many of those midgets to get into the last parliament, is still untouched, storing up instability for a time when the balance of power between the big blocks once again becomes more delicate.

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