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Italy?s flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi boasts of remaking his country?s perennially gray politics into a U.S.-style, image-driven affair. Some in fact say that the media mogul has taken it all too far since first running for office in 1994, staging annual cult-of-personality party conventions and making controversial use of his private television stations to beam a Reaganesque message of smiling conservatism into the living rooms of Italian voters. Still, it has been a recipe for success for Berlusconi, 69, who has been Italy?s longest serving post-War Prime Minister since his election...
...Donnell Field is nothing to marvel at. With a cruel gust blowing in off the Charles, it was cold and I was underdressed. The seemingly interminable noon-time twinbill didn’t end until almost 5:30. And the Crimson sapped the drama out of the affair by leaping out to monster early leads in both games against the toothless Lions, who played all afternoon like they had their cups on backwards. Still, I managed to enjoy myself. How? I’m not so sure. But something in two different sequences during game one reminded me of baseball?...
...organized buses leaving Monday from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Atlanta and Jackson, Miss., to get voters to these satellite locations for early voting. But compared to the sophisticated effort to get Iraqis to vote in the U.S., the get-out-the-vote effort for Louisiana residents is a ragtag affair. "I?m trying to get the info out but FEMA won?t tell us where people are," says a frustrated Katie Neason, who is organizing for ACORN in Dallas. "We just went to some apartment complexes based on word of mouth that people from Louisiana were living there...
...against a WMD threat, it was in the form of a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998. Dubbed "Desert Fox" by the Pentagon, it got relatively little press because President Clinton?s impeachment and doomed House Speaker-to-be Bob Livingston?s extramarital-affair scandal were exploding at the same time. As the attack unfurled, Pentagon officials privately conceded their barrage was based on crude estimates of where Saddam Hussein might be hiding elements of his banned WMD programs...
...life sentence for sedating her husband with a doctored milkshake and then beating him to death with a metal figurine from the kitchen. Nancy Kissel claimed at her trial that her husband abused alcohol and cocaine and repeatedly forced anal sex on her, but she also admitted having an affair with a Vermont TV repairman. After Andrew ran afoul of the law, a Stamford, Conn., judge granted custody of the three kids to the Kissel brothers' sister Jane Clayton of Mercer Island, Wash...