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...There are criminals and then there are statesmen, and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo sees little difference between the two. This is a film of great visual energy about an essentially static figure: Giulio Andreotti, three times the Prime Minister of Italy, a leading light of the Christian Democratic Party, and the star of one of the country's most notorious trials, when he was charged with complicity in the death of the journalist Mino Pecarelli, who had written that Andreotti had Mafia ties and was implicated in the kidnapping and murder of his predecessor as Prime Minister, Aldo Moro...
...Fini's comments were quickly criticized by his center-left opponents. Former Social Affairs Minister Paolo Ferrero called them "incredible and unworthy of someone holding such an important institutional role." Having earlier criticized the flag burning in his city, Turin Mayor Sergio Chiamparino said Fini's "ranking of ignoble acts" was a serious mistake. "You end up justifying what cannot be justified...
Residents of Sao Paolo do amazing things in their cars. They shave. They apply their makeup. They chat up the girl or guy in the neighboring car and make dates. They read. They learn foreign languages. They watch DVDs. Paulistas do all these things because they have no choice; the city's crippling traffic problem forces them to spend a major proportion of their lives inching their way through gridlock...
...forces for decency and transparency are present in every party, not just the left, which has traditionally led the fight against the Mob. The martyred Palermo magistrate Paolo Borsellino came from a right-wing anti-Mafia tradition that persists today. Young Catholics, too, are among the most militant Mob fighters, and should demand candidates worthy of the cause. We recall the words of Pope John Paul II in 1993 in Sicily after a series of bloody Mafia attacks: "This people, the Sicilian people, so attached to life, who love life, who give life, cannot continue to live under the pressure...
...into Interpol's command center. One morning in January, Javier Sánchez, an Interpol operational assistant from Barcelona, sat hunched over a computer in the Lyons office, attempting to find a man who had traveled across three continents on stolen documents, and then vanished in São Paolo. Two days earlier, Mexican officials had spotted his stolen Portuguese passport on Interpol's list when he flew into Mexico City from Frankfurt. They deported him back to Germany, where he presented a second stolen passport, this one Brazilian; German officials then deported him to São Paolo, where...