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...from the tower to circle near the airstrip and suddenly turned westward toward downtown. Moments later his altitude dropped suddenly and the plane pierced the building in a perfectly horizontal position, according to witnesses. The day after the crash, one of Fasulo's two sons was quoted in the Rome-based daily La Repubblica as saying his father probably committed suicide because of mounting financial problems. An experienced flyer, Fasulo was "very discreet and mysterious about anything related to his plane," a fellow Locarno pilot told Swiss television. Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi ordered checks on Fasulo's health record...
...wasn’t even the sketchiest part of the weekend for well-known sleaze Dennis H. Shenkman ’04. That moment came when he posted a graphic description of the act to his house open list. He also asked to borrow a copy of the Rome of Augustus sourcebook...
...structure of the church employed the worst tactics of its secular counterparts: silencing victims, covering up crimes, shifting bad priests around like fungible account executives. Think if Father John Geoghan had been Sister Johanna Geoghan. Would she have been recycled from parish to parish, even given a sabbatical to Rome? Not according to Sister Joan. A nun who physically harmed a child would be sent "back to the motherhouse to boil potatoes or sew coifs. She wouldn't see the inside of a school again...
...however, I think we will eventually encounter advanced civilizations on other planets through space travel. So perhaps they created a time machine a thousand years ago, and this would allow us to travel to points in our own distant past. In that case, I would love to visit ancient Rome as it was and see how people lived. See what Plato looked like. The future doesn’t excite me as much as the past does...
...literature; in Quezon City. DIED. TONINO CERVI, 72, Italian film producer, screenwriter and director who aided the careers of Federico Fellini and Bernardo Bertolucci and won top honors in 1964 at the Venice Film Festival for Michelangelo Antonioni's first color production, Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert); in Rome. BORN. To ELIZABETH HURLEY, 36, actress and cleavage-proud model, a son, Damian Charles; in London. Hurley claims the father is former boyfriend and multimillionaire producer Stephen Bing. EXTRADITION SOUGHT. Of CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ, former President of Venezuela, and his wife Cecilia Matos after the national prosecutor's office reinstituted charges...