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...Russa's controversial speech came just a day after Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno refused to categorically condemn Benito Mussolini's fascist regime. Interviewed by Milan daily Corriere Della Sera following a visit to Israel, Alemanno, who also belongs to National Alliance, said he did not consider fascism an "absolute evil." While racial laws passed by Mussolini in the last five years of his two-decade reign were abhorrent, Alemanno told the newspaper, "fascism was a more complex phenomenon. Many people signed up in good faith...
...more - there are 355 cards in all - and trade them with your friends. The cards come with various points and clues and puzzles on them, in a system so complicated you would have to be 13 years old or younger to understand it. With cards in hand you can visit a website - the39clues.com - where you can create an account and play an online game that involves finding more clues. This makes you eligible to win cash prizes. If you find all 39 clues you could win the grand prize of $10,000. Which you could maybe use to buy yourself...
...Malkin Athletic Center yesterday, drawing surprise from MAC employees unused to seeing such concentrated numbers at 8 a.m., and spilling out the doors of their destination—a mirrored third floor room outfitted with 24 stationary bikes, a string of Christmas lights, and a zealous instructor promising to visit unusual pains upon the entrants. The turnout for the occasion—billed in an online schedule of opening day events as a “dynamic stationary group cycling experience,” with the added advantage of being “set to motivating music?...
...Hong Kong's pro-Beijing parties. Only a week before voters went to the polls, China?s gold medalists made a triumphal tour of the city - a move some saw as an attempt to drum up support for pro-Beijing politicians. Hong Kong's government denied the athletes' visit was connected to the election. But pro-Beijing candidates couldn't help but benefit from association with the victorious Olympians. "China is rising in international status," says Joseph Cheng, secretary general of the pro-democracy Civic Party. "There's a sense of being proud of being Chinese. That certainly supports...
...This decade he did a swell turn, again under a ton of makeup, as a vengeful ex-con in the Robert Rodriguez-Frank Miller Sin City. On his few forays into late-night talk (one visit with David Letterman sticks in my mind), the host would breathe a sigh of relief to find Rourke roguishly charming; the bull hadn't demolished the china. But mostly his rep kept him MIA. When he came up for the role of Randy, he recalled in Venice, Aronofsky told him: "You're a really great actor, and you've just f--ked up your...