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...cells of alleged al-Qaeda schemers busted in Europe over the last year have been accused of planning attacks - in Paris, Brussels, Rome and Strasbourg - that luckily never happened. None has been linked to the one that tragically did: the suicide bombing plot of Sept. 11, centered around Mohamed Atta?s apparently autonomous cell in Hamburg. That changed last week when Spanish investigative judge, Baltasar Garzón, released a preliminary indictment against eight men alleged to have constituted a long-standing al-Qaeda cell in Spain...
...down their knives and razor blades for good. Now they instruct rural women on health and childbirth. "We teach [the circumcisers] a trade that responds to their economic needs," Gambian Fatou Waggeh, an anti-FGM campaigner who was circumcised at 15 and is now 32, told a Rome conference in March. "[We] recognize that we must provide them with alternatives for training and [keeping their] power within the community...
...Divine PonyTail Tells All By JEFF ISRAELY Rome He may be a practicing buddhist and one of the cleanest players in the game, but Italian star Roberto Baggio has a nasty streak just like the rest of us. In his autobiography, A Goal in the Sky, due out this month, Baggio, 34, trashes many of the famous coaches he has encountered during his long career. "The Divine Ponytail" takes angry sideswipes at Renzo Ulivieri and Fabio Capello, but reserves special venom for Marcello Lippi, his tormentor at both Juventus and Inter Milan. Baggio claims Lippi tried to recruit...
...many Europeans, in fact, it seems as if the biggest change since mid-September has been in how they view the U.S. itself. "The security that America gave us, that sense of impenetrability, is gone," says Renato Pellizzari, a 44-year-old owner of a cappuccino bar in northwest Rome. "If it can happen to the U.S., it can happen anywhere," agrees Donell Ali, a 22-year-old station assistant for the London Underground. "I'm not scared of the I.R.A., but I'm concerned about safety now." Ali recognizes similar fears among the Underground's riders...
...thing that really struck me was that as I was doing research with him in Rome, I would call him by his first name,” Scardigli said. “Back at school though, as soon I walk in his office, or see him with other members of the department, I’m always careful to address him as ‘professor.’ Once you’ve crossed that line of comfort, you have to make this constant transition to remain professional. But you do it—because you have...