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...appearance in the World Cup 1998 finale against France. He suffered a seizure just before that match?allegedly brought on by a combination of pressure and injections to treat a dodgy knee?and played as if in a zombie-like trance. In subsequent years at the Italian club Inter Milan, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, dogged by injury, never regained his sparkle or his reputation...
...appearance in the World Cup 1998 finale against France. He suffered a seizure just before that match - allegedly brought on by a combination of pressure and injections to treat a dodgy knee - and played as if in a zombie-like trance. In subsequent years at the Italian club Inter Milan, Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, dogged by injury, never regained his sparkle or his reputation...
...there's the suave Hidetoshi Nakata, who plays in Italy's Serie A league. Other Japanese players have gained overseas exposure, and that seasoning is a factor in their Cup success. But Nakata is the team's reigning International Man of Mystery. He carries himself as coolly as a Milan runway model and betrays barely an emotion, even after scoring a goal as he did against Tunisia on Friday when his header deflected off the goalkeeper's shoe and trickled into the net. His outward calm hides an inner fire. "I desperately wanted to score a goal," says Nakata...
...haven't there been more attacks like those in Karachi and Djerba? Partly because of the fighting in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda had become a state within a state. A senior Italian investigator in Milan is explicit. "The war," he says, "has been a serious blow to the network here." Robbed of their central facilities in the Afghan camps, Italian cells have had to get by with less logistical support, like false documents and ready cash; communications have been hampered; and, crucially, key figures have been killed. Abdel Kader Es Sayed, an Egyptian-born terrorist who authorities say was placed...
...anti-Mafia prosecutor Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market. The network stretches from Palermo to Milan to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes at all levels." The man thought to be responsible for smartening up the Mafia quit school at age 10. Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra...