Word: italianize
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...taking over France's Société Générale in 1999 because the bid came from abroad. When Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria tried to merge with Italy's UniCredito Italiano the same year, Italy's regulator, too, balked at the idea of an Italian bank falling into foreign hands. In Abbey's case, U.K. competition regulations may have given Santander the edge...
...girl named Rana who was raped by her neighbor last April in the city of Nasiriyah. When her family discovered what had happened, her brothers decided to kill her, since she was no longer a virgin. A cousin who was aware of the plan took Rana to a nearby Italian military base; she was later moved to Baghdad and finally to a secret location farther north. Having fled her family, she is unlikely ever to return home. "We hope to get a written guarantee from her parents that she will not be killed," says Zemnakow Aziz, a Workers' Communist Party...
...from Suleiman the Magnificent, weathered centuries of turmoil and was a meeting place of East and West, Islam and Christianity, before being obliterated in 1993. As that loss became a symbol of the brutality and pointlessness of the Bosnian conflict, the bridge's reconstruction - funded by the U.S., Turkish, Italian, Dutch and Croat governments, among others - is a rare positive step toward reconciliation. "As with this bridge, so with Bosnia and Herzegovina," the United Nations' High Representative for the country, Paddy Ashdown, said at the opening ceremony, attended by delegations from 52 countries. With the return of refugees...
...dinner. Over a beer we joke about the nuns, the souvenir shops selling Jesus holograms, the obvious lack of nightlife. But despite our levity, we decide to go back and watch the candlelight procession in front of the church, where we hear "Hail Mary" in French, English, Spanish, Italian and German, and see pilgrims marching with candles held high...
...Italians, by contrast, played a strolling game, stroking the ball to one another mostly along the ground, picking out team mates with accurate passing in a slow buildup, like a chess game, that sought to pull one of the opposing defenders out of position in order to create a gap through which a decisive pass could be threaded for a, sudden, lightning fast attack and shot on goal. No speculative long balls into the penalty area in Italy; Italian teams sought to retain possession until such time as a gap was created. The rules of physical contact were different...