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...school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking a postwar statute still on the books, Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio gave his fans at Lazio a fascist salute. He was disqualified for a game and fined €10,000 - but not prosecuted. On the other hand, a prosecutor secured a court order last year shutting a website that concocted a photomontage of Pope Benedict XVI in a Nazi SS uniform, following disclosures that he had served briefly...
...draw upon. Only the second Commission President to be appointed from outside the original six nations of the E.U. (the other was Roy Jenkins, all of 30 years ago), Barroso usefully combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal and an Atlanticist - but not an Anglo-Saxon - he should have been able to bridge the gap between new and old Europe that opened up before...
...Kevin Griffey, a 27-year-old mechanical engineer from San Diego, Calif., interrupted the proceedings midway through the day by jumping up and calling Gonzales, at the top of his lungs, a "lazy fascist." Griffey, who was subsequently escorted from the hearing, had attended a protest at the White House on Saturday and wanted to attend the hearing because he felt Gonzales has been misinterpreting the law. "It might be the only opportunity to talk to the Administration," he told TIME after he was taken out of the building. "He might hear what...
...DIED. URBANO LAZZARO, 81, Italian Communist resistance fighter credited with arresting Mussolini as the Fascist dictator tried to flee Italy in the final days of World War II; in Vercelli, Italy. As the Nazis retreated in April 1945, Lazzaro spotted Mussolini disguised as a German soldier in a convoy that he and fellow partisan fighters had stopped on a road near the village of Dongo. Mussolini was executed the next...
...raising more money than needed to produce a show, they can keep the difference if the show flops–so begins the search for the worst musical ever.Seemingly, they find just that in “Springtime for Hitler,” a neo-Nazi romp by Fascist-sympathizer (and then some) Franz Liebkind, played to zany perfection by Will Ferrell—a new addition for the movie. Their plan is set into motion when they also enlist the worst director in the business, the flamboyant (to put it mildly) Roger De Bris, played by scene-stealing Gary...