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Europeans often grumble that the European Union is run by anonymous apparatchiks. Surely they're not referring to Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last King, who is campaigning for this week's European Parliament elections. Or to Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party, whose campaign rallying cry is for free file-sharing over the Internet. Or to Elena Basescu, a.k.a. Romania's Paris Hilton - the flashy It girl, who happens to be the daughter of the Romanian President, also wants to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The European Parliament: Where the Fringes Flourish | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

More than 200 FBI agents were involved in raids on the group in Puerto Rico and Boston just before Labor Day. Those captured included Filiberto Inocencio Ojeda-Rios, 52, the suspected mastermind of the Hartford robbery. But the FBI dragnet failed to find Victor Manuel Gerena, 27, a former wrestler accused of leading the robbery. Behind Gerena and the Macheteros, says the FBI, is Fidel Castro. The agency believes that Gerena fled to Cuba with much of the Wells Fargo booty. Ojenda-Rios is also thought to have worked closely with Cuba's intelligence agency: in San Juan, his nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hartford: Blunted Machetes | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...Swiss-style council of state, composed largely of anti-Trujillo business and professional men, was installed to govern the nation until free elections promised for next December. Trujillo's holdover President, Joaquin Balaguer. will turn over chief-executive duties to the council's designated president, Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly, 57, a lawyer who. like almost everyone else of prominence in the Dominican Republic, served Trujillo at one time, but broke with him and helped organize the powerful opposition National Civic Union. One of the council's first actions: to fire Trujillo's diplomat-playboy and onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Back in the Family | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Guns & Slingshots. But Rome's students did not see to pay attention. Hardly had the bells stopped tolling when another schoolboy, Filiberto Accica came home to weep over his failing grades in Latin and Greek. All day and all night he shut himself in his room, brooding as Giuseppe had. On Sunday morning, in the bright spring sunshine, he opened his window and jumped to his death. For his Greek professor, Filiberto left a note: "I do not kill you, I kill myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Be Good, Boys & Girls | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...rays: Panama, Dr. Joaquin J. Vallarino; San Salvador, Dr. David Escalante; Havana, Drs. Filiberto Rivero, Pedro L. Farinas, Luis Farinas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pan-American Doctors | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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