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...Article 18, a measure that allows unjustly fired workers to get their jobs back rather than settle for financial damages. Labor leaders fiercely defend Article 18, which they say protects workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that modernizers like Biagi represent "the left that has betrayed the working class." After the attack, the unions toned down their rhetoric and Berlusconi called for compromise...
...consultant, Massimo D'Antona. The profiles of the victims are strikingly similar: both men divided their time between the professor's lectern and the government negotiating table; both were well-known and respected within government and academic circles but virtually unknown to the general public. "Easy targets," noted Donatella Della Porta, a terrorist expert at the University of Florence. Police even believe the same pistol was used to kill both...
...disappointment for those expecting to see the Holy Shroud, believed by some to be the sheet that was wrapped around the body of Christ after the crucifixion: only a reproduction is regularly available for viewing at the Capella della Santissima Sindone. More satisfying is the Egyptian Museum, which has the largest collection of Egyptian artifacts outside Cairo...
...bearing Kalashnikovs. A few vehicles managed to speed away but two were trapped. The armed men, probably Taliban but possibly bandits, forced four journalists out?sparing their drivers. The four, HARRY BURTON, 33, and AZIZULLAH HAIDARI, 33, both with Reuters; MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, 39, of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera; and JULIO FUENTES, 46, of the Spanish daily El Mundo, were beaten, stoned and then shot at close range. When the bodies were recovered two days later, each victim had multiple gun-shot wounds. They were the second group of journalists killed in Afghanistan in two weeks...
Survey questions were determined by a group of undergraduates led by John Della Volpe, president of the Boston-based opinion research firm SWR/DellaVolp...