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...11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local soccer team, making it one of Europe's best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February, when the Catholic Church was looking for funds to renovate a mountain clinic for asthmatic children, Monsignor Franco Grisenti only needed to ask, and his old friend Tanzi, 65, immediately made an interest-free loan of €400,000. "He's got that impulse in him to just say yes," the prelate marvels. Not all of Tanzi's impulses may have been so noble. On Dec. 27, Tanzi...
...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...recruiter and puppet master of Europe-based terrorists until his arrest in Pakistan in March 2002. According to French antiterror officials, phone intercepts show Zubaydah telegraphed preparations for a foiled 2000 bombing of the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral and also used London-based clerics as intermediaries. Similarly, jailed Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, another Khalden trainee, told interrogators that Zubaydah personally sent him from Afghanistan in July 2001 to organize a kamikaze bomb attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris, a plot undone by Beghal's arrest in Dubai. The fear, of course, is that jihadist groups like the ones...
...them showed that the same sort of hauteur is alive and well in all three capitals. Power talks, and so does the national interest; this is one of the oldest truths in international politics. In the American case, the victim was the authority of the United Nations; in the Franco-German case, the loser is Europe and its common currency. Britain and Sweden, the two most prominent outsiders, will now think thrice before joining the euro zone. Why allow others to fiddle with the stability of your money just because their national interests demand it? The basic reasoning behind...
...architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington, D.C., for tax purposes, the group of 140 people raises and spends money to preserve Florence's artistic legacy. It helps that Brandolini can tap some of her real-estate clients, such as Bette Midler and Mel Gibson. Sting, Franco Zeffirelli and Zubin Mehta all sit on the Advisory Committee. "They are Florence's best friends," says Antonio Paolucci, a former Italian Culture Minister who is now Florence's superintendent of fine arts. "They have already spent more than $3 million helping us conserve the city's works...