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...Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, one of baseball's acknowledged brains, nearly burned out his laptop trying to neutralize Bonds. In the eighth inning of the series' fourth game, he put Bonds on first with no one on base and the score tied 2-2. The next batter, catcher Benito Santiago, hit a home run that won the game. Bonds' presence destroyed the Cardinals in that contest...
Benjamin J. Toff ’05, a Crimson editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. He has recently earned the nickname Benito Mussolini from his campers for his dictatorial discipline enforcement, although on his days off, he can be found fearfully hiding from them in dark corners of the University of Denver campus...
...which reigned over all of Italy after the country was unified in 1870, fell in disgrace at the end of World War II after King Victor Emmanuel III's support for dictator Benito Mussolini. Barred since 1947 by the Italian Constitution from setting foot in Italy, the Savoy male heirs may soon be permitted to return home. They'll find their ancestral city has been whipped into shape...
...guilty thrill to watch Mackey trample sleazebags and their liberties like a skinhead rhino--you feel complicit when he crosses the line, but he does get results. Mackey's rival, an ambitious precinct captain (Benito Martinez), is principled but ineffectual. Between them is Detective Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder), a middle-aged black woman in a white boys' clubhouse who keeps her own counsel...
...lesson of Osama - the shrunken, lower-case Osama - should have been one history had taught us already. Benito Mussolini seemed like a worthy member of the first Axis of Evil, until the country got a close look at him in the newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights...