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...totally agree with Soros. If I had his resources, I would do exactly what he is doing, for I am also convinced that President Bush's foreign policy is dangerous and counterproductive. As a retired colonel who served in the Italian army for 35 years, including several U.N. peacekeeping missions, I can tell you that only those who have never personally been in a combat situation want war and seek it. People like me and Vietnam War hero John Kerry abhor it and would do anything to avoid it. Hurrah for George Soros! Vincenzo Iannelli London...
Deadwood is not the next Sopranos. Everyone likes Italian food, whereas this is beef jerky--slow chewing, an acquired taste but substantial. Sometimes Milch's Shakespearean ambitions get away from him, and the story can drag. But the acting is strong, especially Carradine's leonine, sad gunslinger, who asks his handlers, "Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?" Then there's Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif), the town's physician and its secret keeper--he inspects Swearengen's whores, covers up cases of smallpox, ignores evidence of murder under duress and hides a young girl...
DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro; of natural causes; in U.S. custody in Baghdad. In 1976 he founded the Palestine Liberation Front, whose members seized the boat, fatally shot American Leon Klinghoffer and pushed him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean. Abbas was captured by U.S. special forces in Baghdad last April, nearly two decades after being convicted in absentia by an Italian court...
...just in time. After a three-month probe, Milan prosecutors sought indictments against Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi, former finance director Fausto Tonna and 27 other people last week, the day before the expiration date to qualify for fast-track court proceedings in the €14 billion collapse of the Italian dairy-and-food giant. The executives are accused of an elaborate fraud scheme, including falsifying balance sheets and misleading investors. The Italian affiliates...
...Bank of America and auditing houses Grant Thornton and Deloitte & Touche also face indictment (they deny wrongdoing). Prosecutors hope to skip the preliminary hearing and obtain rapid convictions in a case that has eroded confidence in Italian industry and finance. Another important delivery arrived last week, as state-appointed executor Enrico Bondi presented his bailout plan. He hopes to sell all noncore businesses and reduce Parmalat's brands from 120 to 30 (concentrating on fruit juices and, of course, milk). Prosecutors in Milan are expected to seek more trials, under normal timetables, against other suspects. T-Mobile's Berry...