Word: finie
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...Alemanno has built a reputation as an articulate protégé of Gianfranco Fini, the rightist leader who brought the post-fascist movement into the mainstream in 1993 with the founding of the National Alliance party. Alemanno served as agriculture minister in Berlusconi's 2001-2006 government, and was allied in the mayoral run with Berlusconi backers in the newly formed Freedom Party. After years of centrist Christian Democratic mayors and a 15-year grip by the center-left, Rome now has its first rightist mayor since World...
...characteristically proud and pedantic speech before Parliament on Tuesday, Prodi challenged his fellow politicians to vote him out publicly rather than cut deals behind closed doors. After the speech, Berlusconi ally Gianfranco Fini saw the speech as evidence that the battered Prime Minister was already starting to dust off his suit. "Prodi opened his [next] electoral campaign today," he said. This time, however, there may be no race left...
...largest parties from the ruling coalition into the newly christened Democratic Party, headed by Rome's popular mayor Walter Veltroni. But hope for any such similar merger on the center-right was quickly squashed by Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version of Margaret Thatcher (and pre-cursor to Nicolas Sarkozy): a free market reformer ready to shake up the status...
...Fini and several others, are just hoping the man dubbed "Il Cavaliere" will quietly fade into the sunset, and make room for them to lead the center-right. But don't count on it. Berlusconi watchers - and doubters - have learned over the years not to count him out too quickly. In the weeks leading up to the April 2006 election, Berlusconi trailed by double digits in the polls. But then the Old Silvio kicked into gear: he made unrealistic but enticing promises to eliminate the housing tax, at a small meeting of business leaders, he used a vulgar expression...
...Truman was well aware of this. One of his principal goals during the Big Three meeting in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam in July 1945 was to secure Stalin's pledge to enter the war within a few weeks. When the Soviet dictator agreed, Truman jotted in his diary: "Fini Japs when that comes about...