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Italians are heading to the polls on April 13-14 to choose a new Prime Minister, following the premature collapse of Romano Prodi's center-left government in January. The race between former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni comes at one of the lowest moments in post-war Italian history. With the country locked in a vicious cycle of public cynicism and economic malaise, the election does not bode well. Many pundits think the best-case scenario might be a failure by both Berlusconi and Veltroni to win a ruling majority - an outcome that would...
...exaggerate, Watson embraces his image as a violent pirate. “We find it funny … that’s why we raise the Jolly Roger on our vessels,” he told me yesterday, while comparing himself with former pirates Henry Morgan, Sir Walter Raleigh and John Paul Jones...
...wrongly ? the nation so urgently needs. Shifting to a system of satellite defenses would require years of careful planning and sincere negotiations with the Soviets, for the idea can never work as a unilateral pursuit or as merely a hostile escalation of the arms race. ? By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence L. Barrett and Douglas Brew/ Washington...
...broader interpretation that included individual rights. "The two clauses go together beautifully: Since we need a militia, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded, with the trigger locked - neutralized...
...court decision that determined he was not a mafioso, even while finding that he had done favors for a noted Mob boss. In this febrile environment, Berlusconi is again seeking the Prime Minister's office, while Prodi has been replaced as the center-left candidate by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni. This will be the first election for Veltroni's Democratic Party, and it should take to heart the lesson Prodi missed: that it must tackle the Mob head...