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...toward corruption and megalomania. He spends ample time discussing the stranger-than-fiction behaviors of Nader and Ross Perot, and also sheds light upon more obscure third-party candidates. Perhaps most memorable are Kinky Friedman, a Jewish country singer who made a run for Texas governor in 2006, and Ilona Staller, an Italian porn star who was elected to Italy’s Parliament in 1987.The author further enlivens his text by employing clever examples. Many concepts of voting theory are quite difficult to understand, but Poundstone skillfully presents them within relatively simple contexts. His discussion of vote splitting...
...reversed," says USAID's Winter. The final death toll will depend largely on "whether the Sudanese government will finally make saving lives in Darfur the priority rather than a chit for negotiation." In such a high-stakes game, few expect that to happen. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington and Ilona Eveleens/Kailek
Perhaps inspired by the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Russia's top ultranationalist, VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, demonstrated his mastery of female issues last week. First he had a stimulating exchange with Italy's most political porn star, ILONA STALLER. The next day he was all business, choking and pulling the hair of Duma colleague YEVGENIA TISHKOVSKAYA when she crossed him during a debate on Bosnia. As he later explained, "Such women dream of being raped, but no one will ever come close to them." How do you say "Foxy!" in Russian...
CUSTODY AWARDED.To ILONA ("Cicciolina") STALLER, 43, sometime porn star and former Italian M.P.; of her two-year-old son Ludwig Maximilian by ex-husband JEFF KOONS, the American artist; in Rome...
...late a certain desperation has entered Koons' output -- or so one might judge from a series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome...