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...Mario Francesco Batali was born Mario Francis Batali in 1960. He Italianized the middle name in college--"I hated Francis," he says--but he's only half Italian. Batali's mother Marilyn is of Canadian and English heritage. His father Armandino, a former Boeing executive who has his own bustling restaurant in Seattle, is the Italian one. Batali grew up in Washington State and then, after Boeing transferred his father, in Spain. Batali has two siblings, Dana and Gina, and Marilyn Batali says she requested that each child prepare one meal a week. "At some point, we also began having...
...extensive and leveraged publicly on such a daily basis," she says of the Church hierarchy. "In the past, no matter what the debate, it was politicians on the front line, not the bishops." Ruini's defenders say he has every right to seek to influence government policy. Francesco Rutelli, leader of the the centrist opposition Margherita party, used to be a Radical Party ally of Bonino, but rediscovered his Catholic faith while serving as mayor of Rome in the 1990s. He angered many of his center-left allies by backing Ruini's boycott of the assisted fertility referendum. Rutelli told...
Gunning down Francesco Fortugno in front of dozens of bystanders was cold-blooded enough, but the hit man's next move was even more chilling. As Fortugno, a leading politician in Italy's deep-south region of Calabria, crumpled to the floor with five bullets in his torso, the masked attacker lowered his handgun and strolled calmly through the exit of the local polling station to a waiting car. The bleeding 54-year-old former physician and father of two, who had just voted in Italy's center-left coalition primary, died minutes later at the same Locri hospital where...
Police admit they are stymied. Says Francesco Fleury, the district attorney in charge of the investigation: "The man could be your respectable next-door neighbor, a man beyond any suspicion." The authorities thought they had a lead last year. On Sept. 8, two French tourists camped in a tent became the latest victims. The woman's body was slashed 100 times, and one of her breasts was cut off with a sharp instrument. One day later police received an envelope addressed with letters cut from a newspaper. Its grotesque contents: part of the woman's genitalia. On the morning...
...Cabinet. But it's the opposition coalition that's looking bruised and battered, and most of the injuries are self-inflicted. Fault lines among the half a dozen or so parties in the coalition, which include communists, socialists and even the remains of the splintered Christian Democrats, are widening. Francesco Rutelli, the unsuccessful center-left challenger to Berlusconi four years ago, outraged allies in the Left Democratic party by backing the Italian bishops' call for voters to abstain from this week's referendum on assisted fertility and stem-cell research. But noisy squabbles among coalition partners over policy mask divisions...