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...something to see if a newly cut pen was working, was "Tell me, tell me if anything got finished." And indeed very little did. His big projects for sculpture were never completed--the huge clay model for one of them, meant to commemorate his patron Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, ended up a shapeless mound, shot to pieces by occupying French archers. His big mural commemorating a Florentine victory, the Battle of Anghiari, became a blistered wreck and was painted over. Little survives of his Last Supper in Milan. And so the melancholy catalog of ruin and loss goes...
...information about his companions. - By Jeff Israely/Naples Not Above the Law Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi lashed out at the judiciary on TV, accusing it of meddling in politics. His broadcast followed a decision by the Supreme Court to reject his request to move his corruption trial to Brescia from Milan, where he said judges were biased against him. The decision means that his trial, for allegedly bribing a judge during a corporate takeover battle in 1986, could end as early as this summer, just as Italy takes over the presidency...
...NETHERLANDS Tightening Net Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic surrendered himself to the U.N. war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. Prosecutors have alleged that, as a close associate of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, Milutinovic was responsible for war crimes in Kosovo...
...Italian charm and bold couture, decided to introduce the world to the good-looking little cars his company churned out in Turin. Agnelli's gift was his faith in the selling power of all that is Italian, says Maurizio Dallocchio, dean of the business management school at Milan's Bocconi University: "He never gave up on that vision of creating a strong, independent Italian industry with an international perspective. He made Italy famous in the world." By 1968 Fiat overtook Volkswagen as the largest carmaker outside the U.S., with 157,000 employees turning out 1.75 million cars a year. Fiat...
...Berlusconi coalition's clean sweep of Sicily's 61 Parliament seats in the 2001 elections. In his court testimony, Giuffrè went on to say that during the late 1970s, top Mob boss Stefano Bontade used to visit Berlusconi at the businessman's villa on the outskirts of Milan. Speaking later with reporters, Berlusconi's lawyer flatly dismissed the testimony as "false" and an attempt to discredit the Prime Minister and his party. Dell'Utri remained calm throughout, but took the microphone at the very end for his right to "spontaneous remarks." "Mr. Giuffrè had never mentioned my name...