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Perhaps the staff needs to be disabused of the notion that basic standards of morality can be lifted or imposed--even by the Crimson staff--through mere liberal fiat...
There is in fact no guarantee that Bhutto, who was Prime Minister from 1988 to 1990 before being ousted by presidential fiat, can form a government. As soon as the election results were in, she and Nawaz Sharif began negotiations to win the support of regional splinter parties as well as independents, who garnered the balance of Assembly seats. Both claimed they had the backing to form a government when the Assembly convenes for a secret parliamentary leadership ballot Oct. 19. But Bhutto was widely seen as having the edge...
...1980s mirrored that of Italy's. His roll-the-dice executive style suited the spirit of his times: in 1987 Gardini won control, after a nearly $2 billion buyout, of Montedison, a chemical and pharmaceutical giant, transforming a prosperous family concern into Italy's second largest private company after Fiat...
...Khan, who has always been something of a loner on the clubby Italian business scene, lacked financial alliances within the country and had nowhere to turn for help. His longtime friend Fiat chairman Giovanni Agnelli was preoccupied with the financial woes of his own scandal-tainted automotive empire...
...injuring 200. Nothing was fully proved; no one was ever punished. So no one will ever know what agenda that atrocity served or whether it achieved anything for the murderers. Last week another bomb went off, next to the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence's principal museum. A stolen Fiat van packed with explosives blew up in the middle of the night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people, destroyed museum archives and an important library near the Uffizi, weakened some of its ancient structure, and destroyed or damaged a number of works...