Word: giancarlo
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When you sign up for Mafia Wars, you become a newly minted mafioso. You move up in the ranks by gaining experience, which you can get by doing jobs. For example, I gained experience by confronting a character named Giancarlo Morillo, who had apparently roughed up my uncle (apparently I have an uncle). I did this by clicking a button. Morillo and I "fought." I hurt him more than he hurt me. Success: "You faced Giancarlo Morillo and forced him into seeing things your way." This seemed like a good way to get experience, so I explained my point...
...federalism and social conservatism. No, this right-wing-populist party had taken a different direction: anti-immigration policy. In fact, in 2002, a politician associated with the party had gone so far as to suggest that immigrants and native Italians should take different trains. And not long after that, Giancarlo Gentili, a Lega member and, at the time, mayor of Treviso, proposed that Italians shoot immigrants like rabbits...
Lacroix is not the only fashion house to teeter on the brink. The Antwerp-based designer Veronique Branquinho closed her business last week, blaming the dismal financial situation. Meanwhile, economic pressures are straining relationships inside famous luxury brands. Versace S.p.A. announced on Friday that Giancarlo Di Risio, the house's well-regarded chief executive officer since 2004, will step down. No official reason was given, but sources say that clashes over expenses with Donatella Versace, the creative director and part owner of the brand, were to blame. Another CEO, Kim Winser of the British brand Aquascutum, also resigned last week...
...emperor might never have succeeded if not for his prime minister: Giancarlo Giammetti, who from the beginning ran the business, ran interference, made the deals and, for much of their 45 years, was Valentino's lover. They met in a cafe on the Via Veneto in 1960, the year Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita made that street famous, and established Rome as the Mecca and Gomorrah of European society. (Nino Rota's music from La Dolce Vita and other Fellini films ornaments the sound track.) Valentino had just come from Paris to open a salon; Giammetti was still...
...that moments—yet easily pulls off subtler tricks like Bond photographing Quantum members communicating through earpieces during a performance of “Tosca.” The supporting cast also turns out excellent performances: especially noteworthy are Jeffrey Wright as an embittered Felix Leiter and Giancarlo Giannini as the disgraced Mathis. Although the story begins where “Casino Royale” left off—a welcome first for a Bond movie—Forster washes his film of that movie’s operatic pretensions, and consequently “Quantum of Solace?...