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...shot Miller has fired is the assault against North by party elders. Most adamantly opposed is John Warner, who along with some other Senate Republicans would rather not have the mercurial North as a colleague. North is so unfit to serve in Congress, Warner says, that a "Republican white knight" should enter the race as an independent if North gets the nomination. Warner and his colleagues also elicited a letter from Reagan, for whom North lied to Congress and shredded key documents, attacking North's account of Iran-contra -- particularly North's published assertion, in 1991, that "President Reagan knew...
Thanks to the cross fire of contradictions that divide Berlusconi's two allies, the country again has the makings of a ruling coalition every bit as fractious as the 52 revolving-door administrations that came before. "It's a difficult alliance," Berlusconi concedes. But, adds Il Cavaliere ("the Knight," as he is known), "a general doesn't fight a war with the soldiers he wants. He fights with the ones...
...image as a white knight is fading fast among the 1.4 million members. Carey spent the first year of his presidency -- along with millions of the members' dollars -- fighting government efforts to kick out the Mob. Now investigators are examining whether Carey misled his followers about his own finances. According to records examined by TIME, Carey owns substantial real estate around the U.S. At the least, those holdings challenge the working- class persona he cultivated to become the first directly elected president in the union's history. Carey's campaign literature portrayed him as a humble family man, a truck...
ITALY: Victory to the Knight from the Right...
Ekerot, swathed in black robes, his angular, bony face impossibly white, stands with Maria Casares in Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" and the peasant in Roberto Gavalodon's "Macario" as one of the greatest visualizations of death in cinema. At one point, Jof sees the Knight playing chess with Death, and he escapes with Mia and their son. The Knight travels to his castle with several of his companios, and it is there that Death finds them. As the film closes, Jof has a vision of Death leading the Knight and his companions in a dance across the horizon...