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...both miss a larger point that their leader Fini had finally seemed to grasp about the "absolute" lessons that must be drawn from history. As Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari said after La Russa's remarks: Nazi soldiers also believed that they were defending their nation, and no German politician would think to praise their efforts...
...city because their neighborhood rarely floods). One tended the bar. Another set up generators to provide a bit of light, since Gustav's winds had knocked out electricity. Watts pointed to yet another band of protection: two New Orleans police officers sitting at the tip of the bar, drawn partly by the free meals that the Avenue offers law-enforcement officials. "It keeps them close," she says. Their presence certainly deters would-be looters. Indeed, fear of looting remains a concern. Many parishes imposed aggressive dusk-till-dawn curfews. As for the fear of levee breaches, nothing significant occurred...
...peaceful assembly, with the exception of breakaway demonstrators, some of whom are allegedly members of the RNC Welcoming Committee, a self-described anarchist group that was the target of weekend police sweeps. After police and FBI authorities entered suspected Welcoming Committee buildings with battering rams and guns drawn, they confiscated items purportedly used to make Molotov cocktails, along with pipes, smoke bombs, shields, spray paint, bricks, ignitable liquid, maps of downtown St. Paul and even feces and urine, according to one Hennepin County search warrant...
...veteran E.U. official said the Brussels summit underlined how weak the E.U. is. "It is like the chorus in a Greek tragedy," says Pierre Defraigne, the European Commission's former deputy director-general for trade. "The lesson to be drawn from this is that the E.U. needs its own defense capabilities, and it needs a common purpose on energy...
...Prosecutors say they will have a new indictment ready at the end of next month, one amended to include new jurisprudence and evidence since their last indictment against Karadzic was drawn up eight years ago. But a displeased Judge Bonomy told prosecutors he was surprised they haven't already done their work...