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...MARA by Tova Reich...
...Curcio married a fellow radical, Margherita Cagol, code-named "Comrade Mara." The two moved to Milan, where they swiftly became zealots of armed struggle. The Red Brigades were set up in November 1970 as "an armed proletariat vanguard to be the revolutionary power of the exploited classes." The Communists, in the organization's view, had sold out; the aim of the brigatisti, much like that of 19th century anarchists, was to purify society by overthrowing all existing institutions. But the Red Brigades seem to have no coherent vision of what would replace them...
...released. In 1974 came the first murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...
...moments--asking God in the Super Bowl if since he's a sinner, God is going to fuck him. Clint Murchison of the Cowboys has probably done that, albeit silently. It would be nice if owners were that dumb; the throwback owner of the Giants, Wellington Mara, probably is but not the Murchisons, Hunts, and Robbies of today. David Merrick depends on an abrasive charm as the Werner Erhardt figure who is a kind of camp follower cum guru, but in the end he is just abrasive. In fairness to Ritchie, the great part of the movie that involves Merrick...
Defeating competitors from Bowdoin (10-1), Springfield (by default), Wellesley (double breadsticks), and Mt. Holyoke (2 and 5), she made her way into the consolation finals. Playing what Coach Felske described as "beautiful, calculated tennis" against Brown's number one singles player Mara Rogers, Meyer grabbed four straight games to break open the match and claim the title...