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...priest." Ask an Italian what they think of their current leader, and chances are they'll chuckle - but most go on to say they voted for him. For many of his countrymen, Berlusconi's appetites are central to his appeal: "He is a real Italian," shrugs Alessio de Mitri, a youth coordinator for Berlusconi's party, now called Il Popolo della Libertà (PDL). "He likes to eat. He likes parties. He's going through a divorce, like a lot of people. He's going through company problems. He's really normal...
DIED. TIBERIO MITRI, 74, Italian former European middleweight boxing champion whose gritty 1950 title fight against Jake La Motta was immortalized in the film Raging Bull, after falling under a train; in Rome. Known as the "Trieste Tiger," Mitri held the European title in 1949 and 1954. After he retired in 1957, his boyishly handsome face won him a number of film roles, but he spent the latter part of his life in destitution...
...city center, which was reduced to rubble during the 1975-76 civil war. By cleaning up this section, Hariri hopes to bring life back to a no man's land that most people in Beirut did not dare visit for seven years. According to the governor of Beirut, Mitri Nammar, work on restoring the heart of the city will begin as soon as officials are satisfied that all land mines have been removed from the area. The estimated cost: as high as $3 billion. "The destruction has opened up new opportunities for us that we never dreamed of before...
Middleweight Champion Jake LaMotta was polite last week. Whenever his challenger, Italy's Tiberio Mitri, lunged off balance in the ring at New York's Madison Square Garden, Gentleman Jake stepped back and let him recover. When the fight was over, LaMotta had won a unanimous decision, but the crowd booed him from habit just the same. Said a plaintive LaMotta next day: "I know the fans don't like me because of my poor fights with Billy Fox and Robert Villemain. But I'm turning over a new leaf. I've got a psychologist...
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