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...Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...
...Pope also appeared to be making a veiled reference to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe when he wrote that Cyril and Methodius "took as their own the difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending their own identity against the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire...
Senator Alan Simpson, the Wyoming Republican who joined with Kentucky Democrat Romano Mazzoli to turn the Select Commission's findings into an immigration reform bill, estimates that Mexico would have to generate 700,000 new jobs every year (200,000 more than it is currently creating) just to keep its unemployment from getting worse. Simpson and Mazzoli have failed three times to get their bill passed, but Simpson, undaunted, presented yet another bill...
...Simpson of Wyoming introduced a new version of his much debated Immigration Reform and Control Act, and the Senate held hearings on the bill last month. It is the third time in four years that Congress has considered Simpson's legislation. In 1984, with the cosponsorship of Democratic Congressman Romano Mazzoli of Kentucky, immigration reform passed both houses, only to expire in conference committee. This year Simpson is carrying on the legislative struggle without Mazzoli, who has declined to cosponsor the bill without support from the Democratic House leadership and from black and Hispanic legislative caucuses...
...native Naples to Tantric symbolism. It is full of occultism, tarot, necromancy, devils, Sabbats and pallid sexual grotesquerie. It always looks hasty. It is heavy on the orifices: eating, coupling, defecating; the mood varies from mysterioso rhetoric to voyeurism. One moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year painting near Madras); the next, copying a spiral staircase out of Mario Praz's Illustrated History of Furnishing; and after that, doing a billboard-size head of Grace Jones with skulls for teeth...