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...decades of Russian intelligence information, he became an ardent critic of Vladimir Putin’s administration. He decried the Kremlin’s autocratic tendencies, provided interesting information about Pope John Paul II’s attempted assassination in 1981, and was even quoted saying that a leftist Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was the “KGB’s man in Italy” during the Cold War. Suffice to say, this left him with a long list of enemies...
...Pliable Pots These malleable vases seem almost claylike in texture, but in fact are composed of flexible steel coils sandwiched between aluminum skins. They come from Italian designer Giovanni Pellone, and can be molded according to your mood - straight one moment, kinky the next. uptoyoutoronton.com...
...turned these spiritual journeys into worldwide media events, from his first return to his Polish homeland to the masses he conducted before millions in the Philippines and his Millennial-year arrival in the Holy Land. Though lacking some of the same flair, Benedict XVI's first four outings beyond Italian soil have largely followed similar pilgrimesque itineraries: warming up to a million young Catholics at World Youth Day in Cologne, paying homage to his predecessor in Poland, trying to turn back a wave of Spanish secularism in Valencia, and returning two months ago to his native German region of Bavaria...
...militias loyal to warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Eighteen U.S. special forces were killed, and the world community's involvement in Somalia effectively ended. What followed was a decade and a half of intermittent war that reduced Mogadishu to rubble. Along the "green line," the architectural gem of the former Italian colony that bore the brunt of the warlords' reign, the once proud edifice of the National Bank is obliterated, and only a stone shard remains of the cathedral's twin bell towers...
...bands of technicals--pickups mounted with heavy artillery and carrying armed thugs--have been replaced by disciplined Islamic troops. The city's ports have reopened, buses travel the roads by day, and Somali families stroll the sidewalks by night. Barring the notable exceptions of a Swedish journalist and an Italian nun who were recently murdered, there's no denying Mogadishu's new semblance of order. "This is an area of the world that we would obviously like to see stable, and [the Islamists] are doing that to some extent," says a Western diplomat. "So if what you see is what...