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RESIGNED. ROBERTO CALDEROLI, 49, anti-immigration Italian Reforms Minister; after an incendiary TV news appearance in which he unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a T shirt displaying the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad; in Rome. Calderoli's stunt ignited violent protests in Libya. At least 10 Libyans were reportedly killed in clashes with police...
...Jesus Christ of politics." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, describing himself as a martyr for his nation. He has also compared himself to Churchill and Napoleon in recent weeks while seeking re-election...
...RESIGNED. ROBERTO CALDEROLI, 49, anti-immigration Italian Reforms Minister; after an incendiary TV news appearance in which he unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a T shirt displaying the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad; in Rome. Calderoli's stunt ignited violent protests in Libya. At least 10 Libyans were reportedly killed in clashes with police...
...DIED. FRIEDRICH ENGEL, 97, former Nazi SS officer accused of executing Italian prisoners of war; in Hamburg, Germany. Known in Italy as the "Butcher of Genoa," Engel was handed a seven-year suspended sentence in 2002 after a German court found him guilty of ordering the massacre of 59 Italian naval commandos on the outskirts of Genoa in 1944. A federal appeals court quashed the conviction in 2004 citing a lack of evidence, and ruled that Engel's advanced age prevented a retrial...
...sudden success, the fame, the adulation, the troubled times, the seemingly unstoppable decline. And, inevitably, the comeback. Ten years after the Cristallo closed its shutters, the veteran sashayed back onstage, looking more glamorous than ever. That was in 2001, and the luxury five-star hotel in the Italian ski resort of Cortina is still rocking its clientele. "We loved the idea of starting again," says Paola Gualandi, whose entrepreneurial clan now owns the Cristallo. "And Cortina is very popular and upscale?everybody wants to be here...