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...morning of Feb. 6, Giovanni Spadolini walked into a committee room in Rome's Chamber of Deputies and got ready to debate. Three months earlier, Aldo Moro's center-left government had given him the newly invented and resonant-sounding portfolio of Ministro dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali (Minister of Cultural and Environmental Resources). Since then, Spadolini had been striving to get more money and protection for Italy's impoverished and vulnerable museums. Two new bills were ready to be argued. "Just as the debate was beginning," Spadolini recalls, "a colleague in the chamber came...
Long before Anna's real estate and construction company, Beni Immobili Italia, last year joined SACIE, a larger rival in the building business, the 60-year-old Milan matron had become rejected-and feared-by captains of Italian industry. As far back as 1956, Alberto Pirelli, the tire magnate, chose Anna to put up his empire's 32-story headquarters in Milan. "I look at the price and the quality," he said, "not the sex." Three years ago she initiated a move by major shareholders of La Centrale, a leading holding company, to take power away from...
Anna inherited Beni Immobili Italia after Carlo Bonomi, a millionaire who adopted her as a child, died in 1940. When a group of relatives challenged her inheritance on the grounds that Anna was Carlo's illegitimate child and thus not an heir under Italian law, she fought a hard court battle and won. After that, it was merely a matter of following in her father's footsteps. "I was his only child," Anna recalled recently for the Italian magazine Oggi (she refuses to see foreign journalists). "Often he would take me with him to visit his workshop...
...summer heat by hunkering down beside water holes; in winter, after provident rains had fallen, they drove their camel herds across 100-mile-wide tribal grazing grounds, venturing into town only to sell their animals. They observed stern codes for everything from vendettas to hospitality. Bigger tribes like the Beni Sakhr, when they suffered a bad winter, carried out a gazu or tribal raid, plundering weaker tribes of their camels, horses and food...
...degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate and farming 100,000 acres of land planted in grains...