Word: fascistically
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...London's financial district for his 1998 manipulation of the Swedish stock exchange while working at Credit Suisse First Boston; in London. His disgraced father, author Jeffrey Archer, was jailed last week for perjury in a libel case. DIED. INDRO MONTANELLI, 92, veteran right-wing Italian journalist and former Fascist renowned for his controversial views; in Milan. In 1943 he was jailed by the Fascists and narrowly escaped execution for criticizing the regime in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, music producer who founded Commodore Records, the first U.S. independent jazz label; in New York...
November 20, 1975: Generalismo Francisco Franco, ruler of fascist Spain for 36 years, dies...
...billionaire-turned-politician for much of the past decade. Editorials highlighted the potential conflict of interest stemming from Berlusconi's control of much of Italy's TV programming. Prominent politicians across Europe wondered aloud how they could deal with a government that included the openly xenophobic and post-fascist parties allied to Berlusconi's center-right coalition. In the end, Italians went to the polls and elected him anyway...
...issue that most concerned Italy's E.U. partners, however, was the possibility that far-right elements might find their way into the new government. Gianfranco Fini, whose post-fascist National Alliance took 12% of the vote, was immediately promised a deputy prime minister's post. But Fini is now a moderate conservative who has severed ties with the party's pro-Mussolini roots. The neighbors' real worry during the campaign was Umberto Bossi, acid-tongued leader of the anti-immigrant Northern League, who has called the E.U. the "Soviet Union of the West" and once branded Brussels bureaucrats "Nazi pedophiles...
...fitting, but rare touch, Heston appears in an ape cameo. As a US Air Force pilot, Wahlberg crash lands on a foreign planet, only to be captured by highly evolved intelligent apes (led by a costumed Michael Clarke Duncan) that run their society like a violent, fascist dictatorship and have the helmets to match. Humans are marginalized and degraded as captive slaves, a treatment that inspires Wahlberg to escape from monkey prison and lead a human...