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Though the OMP paid market prices for the homes and businesses it acquired and assisted residents with relocation, the area's 28 remaining homeowners are refusing to move--and seething at the plan's champion, Chicago mayor Richard Daley. "The city's pitch was, We're going to take your home one way or another," says Joseph Karaganis, Bensenville's attorney. "Sell voluntarily, or we'll take you to court to condemn your property." Daley, says 25-year resident Roberta Baird, "is like the bully on the playground who wants all the toys...
...want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.' KWAME KILPATRICK, the city's former mayor, resigning after a sex-and-misconduct scandal...
...Alemanno's comments were denounced by Jewish groups, surviving resistance leaders and members of the center-left opposition. Walter Veltroni, former Rome mayor and current head of the major center-left Democratic party, said he would resign from a city committee spearheading the building of a Holocaust memorial museum in protest...
...Russa's controversial speech came just a day after Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno refused to categorically condemn Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Interviewed by Milan daily Corriere Della Sera following a visit to Israel, Alemanno, who also belongs to National Alliance, said he did not consider fascism an "absolute evil." While racial laws passed by Mussolini in the last five years of his two-decade reign were abhorrent, Alemanno told the newspaper, "fascism was a more complex phenomenon. Many people signed up in good faith...
...both miss a larger point that their leader Fini had finally seemed to grasp about the "absolute" lessons that must be drawn from history. As Venice mayor Massimo Cacciari said after La Russa's remarks: Nazi soldiers also believed that they were defending their nation, and no German politician would think to praise their efforts...