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...what became known as the Maxi-Trials in the mid-1980s, Sicilian prosecutors tried hundreds of Mafia suspects en masse for crimes ranging from murder to criminal association. The sweeping strategy hit Cosa Nostra in the trenches, marking a critical victory for such crusading magistrates as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. It was also great theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed...
...Ulivieri and Fabio Capello, but reserves special venom for Marcello Lippi, his tormentor at both Juventus and Inter Milan. Baggio claims Lippi tried to recruit him as a locker-room spy and then tried to destroy his career. Notably absent from this roll of dishonor is current Italy coach Giovanni ("Trap") Trapattoni, in whose hands rest Baggio's dreams of making his fourth World Cup. In a year at the helm, Trap hasn't tapped the veteran forward, but he hasn't ruled Baggio out of his plans for Korea/Japan. Either way, he could get a chapter...
...grief for my American brothers. For the first time in my life, I cried in front of the TV while watching what happened in the U.S. I don't really have the words to explain what I feel. I would just like to say, Go, America! Stand tall again! GIOVANNI BELLO Bari, Italy
...harlot. She is a sensual and tragic figure in Renaissance paintings and objets d'art. Her modern face comes straight from Hollywood, embodied most famously in 1963 by Elizabeth Taylor-whose off-screen affair with her own Mark Antony, co-star Richard Burton, recalled the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio's description of Cleopatra as a woman "who became an object of gossip for the whole world...
...Italian song by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You" (Elvis Presley) from the 18th century French ballad "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean-Pierre Claris "It's Now or Never" (Elvis Presley) from the 19th century Italian song "O Sole Mio" by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo Di Capua "Jealousy" (Frankie Laine) from the "gypsy tango" by the Danish composer Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh...