Word: mussolinis
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...Berlusconi's Forza Italia the nation's most powerful political party, with nearly 30% of the vote, and gave so-called Il Cavaliere a big enough majority to have a shot at staying in power for a full five-year term - something no Italian prime minister has accomplished since Mussolini. Turning out in large numbers, the voters themselves did what years of bickering about the election law had failed to do: weed out the small parties that have traditionally wielded undue power and concentrate support on the two main blocs...
...Until Mussolini drained the mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...
...republic in 1946; in Geneva. As a member of the Savoy dynasty, she ruled alongside her husband, King Umberto II, for a total of 27 days following the abdication of his father, Vittorio Emanuele. After a public referendum vetoed the monarchy--and rejected the facist regime of Benito Mussolini--the couple fled into exile. Gabriella never returned, but her demise may prove to be the catalyst needed to lift a lifetime ban on the male Savoy heirs...
...church has enough saints and people of merit to last till the next millennium. Who will it canonize next? Benito Mussolini? LIA CHASEN East Norwich...
...like him--a grave simple child...playing with the most expensive toys." Others found little to like or admire about the man. But Nasaw tells his story with such nuance and understanding that the reader never fully loses sympathy, even when the Chief was paying Hitler and Mussolini to write for his papers, and Hearst and his columnists were smearing innocent people...