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...victims of extreme leftists who terrorized Italy during the 1970s and 1980s weren't outraged enough by Sarkozy's climb-down on Petrella, their fury was presumably further stoked at learning the back story of the move: Sarkozy's Italian-born wife, Carla Bruni, and her sister, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, had lobbied the President not to extradite the gravely ill Petrella to Rome - it even fell to the sisters to personally break the news of that reprieve to the former terrorist. "We could not let this woman die," Bruni told the daily Libération Monday in explaining her intervention...
...Petrella's case. In June, Sarkozy's Italian-born wife Carla Bruni told the daily Libération that Petrella "is ill, and should be cared for the way any human should. And prison isn't the ideal place for that". The following month, Bruni's older sister, actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, visited Petrella in prison and expressed deep concern for "someone who is seriously ill". Tedeschi - who in 1995 played the harrowing role of a jailed Red Brigades terrorist - likened the embrace of extremist ideology to the descent into drug addiction, suggesting redemption from both is possible...
...Yanukovych and Putin for having achieved the impossible. "They finally forced the Ukrainians to unite to become a nation," he said. But that unity was not in evidence last week, and it may still turn out to be an impossible dream. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Helen Gibson/ London, Valeria Korchagina/ Moscow, Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Jonathan Shenfield/Paris
...they would snap up what's left of Yukos if allowed. Big oil "is desperate to invest in Russia. It's one of the few opportunities left," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Does Russia intend to keep that opportunity at home? - With reporting by Valeria Korchagina A Bit Of Healthy Competition I f one drug firm sneezes, does the whole world catch the flu? U.S. health authorities were scrambling to answer that question last week after a severe shortage of flu vaccines sparked consumer panic. U.S. drug company Chiron, which produces almost half...
...ladies were stumped. Cheryl Spangler, Valeria Borunda-Jameson and Susan Puckett, three college-admissions workers on a training visit to Florence, Ky., had sauntered into a local barbecue joint called Chung Kiwha. But instead of sauce-slathered mutton served up from the kitchen, they saw a buffet of uncooked meats and vegetables. Instead of knives and forks, they were given large scissors, chopsticks and metal tongs. No candle flickered at their table, but a bucket of fiery wood charcoal hissed in the tabletop grill pit. Chung Kiwha served barbecue, all right--cook-it-yourself Korean barbecue. "I didn't realize...