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Cessario, who is still in contact with Law, says the cardinal was unavailable for an interview due to a trip to Rome...
...southern reaches of Madrid." He predicts Xanadú will create more than 4,000 new jobs and attract more than 25 million visitors a year. This is Mills Corp.'s first venture in Europe, but Siegel says the company is close to breaking ground on other supermalls near Barcelona, Rome and Milan. Siegel attributes the smooth opening of Xanadú to the political connections of his partner in Spain, Jaafar Jalabi, the nephew of Ahmed Chalabi, the wealthy Iraqi exile leader who is close to the Bush Administration. Jalabi, who shares ownership of the snow park and mall with Mills...
...Rome: Total War (Creative Assembly) So you think modern warfare is tough? The Total War series, previously set in medieval Europe and Japan, has an unnerving ability to remind you just how bloody historical conflict could be. This time, you're at the head of entire Roman, Greek or Carthaginian legions-and get lay siege to entire cities. You've never been able to zoom in this close before, close enough to literally see the whites of the centurions' eyes. And you've never seen anything like the charge of those Carthaginian elephants...
...Persepolis, Samarkand and Thebes, were mostly located around the Nile, Euphrates and Tigris rivers and along the Silk Road. With the rise of the seafaring Phoenician trading empire, prosperity and power shifted toward the Mediterranean Sea. At different times, this led to the emergence of Alexandria, Athens, Carthage, Constantinople, Rome and Tyre. And in the 15th century, it culminated in the first centers of capitalism: the Italian trading cities of Florence, Genoa, Pisa and Venice. Eventually, those cities were also overtaken by other, often more fortuitously situated and therefore more prosperous burgs...
...Project's adherents grew into the thousands across Europe, they also perpetrated some attention-grabbing pranks. They sparked an international manhunt in 1995 after announcing that British artist Harry Kipper had disappeared while bicycling through Europe; Kipper turned out not to exist. Later that year they hijacked a Rome bus to hold a "rave" on board; 18 were arrested though most were later released. And they claimed responsibility for the 1999 theft of four religious statues from churches in southern Italy, demanding that the hierarchy give $53,000 to the poor. The ransom was never paid, the statues never returned...