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...safe return from Iraq of Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta - held hostage for three weeks in September - was another Berlusconi political coup that bore Letta's fingerprints. The effort was driven by backroom diplomacy, not the showmanship that comes so naturally to Berlusconi. Less than 24 hours before the hostages' liberation, Letta called in top opposition leaders for a confidential meeting. There was good news: the two Simonas were alive; a satellite had picked up the sound of their voices. Letta played the crackling tape to the opposition politicians. They agreed it was better to negotiate with...
...moderns are genuine humans compared to the superhumans of yore. One unchanging aspect of heroism is that the heroes who endure have all been overpraised by later generations. Gideon Suleman Kaduna, Nigeria I was stunned to see your cover identifying the two freed Italian hostages, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, as European heroes. In light of some of Torretta's statements after she was released by her Iraqi kidnappers - that "the guerrilla war is justified" and that Italy should pull out its troops - to present them as heroes is an offense to Italy, its values and its roots...
...after the abduction of two female Italian volunteers in central Baghdad. "We're not going because we're scared," he said. "But it's useless to try to work when you have become a target." In broad daylight last Tuesday, a group of heavily armed men dragged away Simona Torretta and Simona Pari, both 29, and two Iraqi volunteers from the office of their humanitarian agency, A Bridge for Baghdad. Speaking from the Iraqi capital, Rodino, 47, said he'd worked in recent months with both Italian women who, like most aid workers, didn't consider themselves targets. Rodino said...
With a little under two minutes left to play in Saturday's game, No. 8 Miami was trailing No. 1 FSU, 24-20. UM quarterback Ken Dorsey calmly marched his team from its own 32-yard line down the length of the field ala Gino Torretta. Dorsey capped the drive with a 13-yard TD pass to tight end Jeremy Shockey with 46 seconds left...
...very next year, the aforementioned Torretta engineered the go-ahead drive in the final minutes and watched as poor Dan Mowry took his place in the history books as the author of "Wide Right II." Miami won the game by the score of 19-16 and effectively denied FSU a shot at the national title...