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...with Genoa--and Pisa's defeat in 1284--suspends building for nearly a century...
...World Bank's decision doesn't exactly bode well for next month's summit of G8 leaders in the Italian city of Genoa. Up to 100,000 protestors are expected to try and reach the fabled port to register their discontent with President Bush and the other leaders of the world's most industrialized nations - and that has city authorities extremely worried, particularly in light of the difficulties in policing its narrow streets. They reportedly considered holding the summit on a ship in the bay, but later decided that would be a colossal humiliation. Still, they're planning to billet...
...Then there is the sublime: For sheer diabolical genius (of the Hollywood variety), nothing came close to the reports that European security services are preparing to counter a Bin Laden attempt to assassinate President Bush at next month's G8 summit in Genoa, Italy. According to German intelligence sources, the plot involved Bin Laden paying German neo-Nazis to fly remote controlled-model aircraft packed with Semtex into the conference hall and blow the leaders of the industrialized world to smithereens. (Paging Jerry Bruckheimer?) The Russians, who believe a Bin Laden attack in Genoa is more likely to be carried...
...That's not good enough for Berlusconi's critics. In his new role as opposition leader, Francesco Rutelli, defeated center-left candidate, demanded that Berlusconi resolve the situation before hosting July's G8 summit of industrial nations in Genoa. Said Rutelli: "He cannot represent us in front of the most important international summit in the world with a problem this big - as big as a house - still unresolved...
...ship crooner will soon have plenty of chances to perform on the international stage. After opening at next month's nato summit in Brussels, he will warm up at the E.U summit in Göteborg, then step into the spotlight as host of July's G8 meeting in Genoa. Whatever happens, Il Cavaliere is unlikely to make as big a spectacle as he did when Italy hosted a U.N. conference on organized crime in Naples in 1994: with the world's most powerful leaders looking on, Berlusconi was served with papers putting him under formal investigation for charges...