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Nearly 5,000 mourners gathered in the Alpine village of Tesero for the communal burial of 33 local victims of the collapse of a dam complex that devastated the Stava River valley on July 19. The day before the interment, Italian President Francesco Cossiga had visited the town and promised the government would prosecute those responsible. Later in the week, two brothers who owned the collapsed mining-company dams, as well as the firm's manager, were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter and causing a disaster. Authorities summoned 60 people for questioning about operations at the two dams...
...political chat show on TV, he said Italian troops would begin pulling out of Iraq in September. For a brief moment, even the opposition was praising him. But after a phone call from President Bush, Berlusconi clarified his remarks, telling reporters he only "hoped" for a withdrawal. Opposition leader Francesco Rutelli quipped: "It's a world record - the withdrawal of an announced withdrawal in half a day." The center-left opposition is at the mercy of small parties, too. The disparate mix of communists, reformers and former Christian Democrats has proved ineffective without a unifying Berlusconi-like figure. "There...
...Lanka and the Maldives, businesses have watched tourists disappear and dollars dry up. Even Bali, more than 4,300 km away from the hardest hit Indonesian province of Aceh, has seen canceled bookings. At an emergency summit of the World Tourism Organization in Phuket early this month, Secretary General Francesco Frangialli called the cancellations in the region "irrational." Speaking to delegates from around the globe, he urged governments to take swift action to get the tourists back "in order to alleviate the suffering of the affected populations...
...Letta's eminence. "Letta is a formidable ambassador," says Giuliano Ferrara, a conservative newspaper editor and occasional Berlusconi adviser, "but he's not a real political adviser, not a Karl Rove. Someone who always counsels generic prudence is useful, but it's incomplete." And former President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga wonders just how much advice the boss hears. "For someone like Berlusconi, who comes from a modest background and has had that kind of success, it's hard not to think he's always right." Whatever detractors say, Letta's boss seems convinced of his talents. At last month...
...discounts for large families from food chains and other retailers. The father of 12 says he isn't asking others to pay for his choice: "We simply ask society for the right to have the children we want to have, and to be able to live in decent conditions." Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University, says large families are the only way to fix Europe's dangerous population slide. In Italy, he says, "even a three-child family is considered completely deviant. That notion has to be avoided; otherwise you can't ever achieve [population...