Word: milan
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Everybody knows the story of The Tempest: the magician Prospero and his daughter, Miranda, have lived on a desert island ever since Prospero's brother, Antonio, usurped the Dukedom of Milan and banished them. But now Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck Antonio's passing ship. Antonio and his fellow conspirators fall into Prospero's hands. With the help of the sprites that he controls, Prospero dictates the subsequent events on the island, cunningly arranging a reconciliation and improving his political standing. The play toys with our notions of reality and illusion, and presents an engaging debate about power...
...games run, and the reveries flow. Out in Indiana, in Butler University's Hinkle Fieldhouse this Monday night, the 1954 teams from Milan and Muncie will join in a reunion. Bobby Plump will be there. Yes, Bobby Plump. For those few deprived Americans who did not see the movie Hoosiers, Bobby is the kid who made the shot in the final seconds that won the state championship for Milan, the smallest Indiana town (pop. 1,000) ever to achieve the title. A Larry Bird he never became. At 5 ft. 10 in., he sold insurance and financial services and never...
With the lira down and the nation rocked by the Mani Pulite, or Clean Hands, kickback investigations, Italians need some good economic news. They looked for it, naturally, in the Milan fall ready-to-wear shows, just ended, hoping in part that a recovering U.S. economy will send a windfall of clothing orders their way. One enticement: with the weaker lira, price tags will be at least 15% lower than last year's. But the critics' reviews were mixed. Clown motifs, gold frogging, Tyrolean touches or military flourishes cluttered many of the outfits and seemed inappropriate for local customers...
...corruption investigation into kickbacks to political parties in return for public-works contracts has uncovered what now seems to be the largest public-corruption scandal in modern European history. Operation Clean Hands, run by five judicial prosecutors from a warren of fusty offices in Milan, has swept through Italy's corridors of power like a sirocco. Once confined to Milan, Clean Hands has now reached 21 cities. More than 800 people have been arrested and an additional 1,000 are thought to be under investigation...
...officer for Fiat, Italy's largest private employer, was arrested along with another top executive. Both maintain their innocence. Ex-Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, who has received eight notifications that he is suspected of corruption offenses, was forced out last month as head of the Italian Socialist Party. Rome, Milan and Naples are without mayors because of the scandal. Three Cabinet Ministers tainted by association have stepped down. Prime Minister Giuliano Amato was reduced last week to arguing that just being under criminal investigation should not oblige a public official to quit. Amato won a lukewarm vote of confidence from...