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Italy's influential Northern League Party has stood out over the past decade for its particular knack in finding new (and not-so-new) ways of offending people based on country of origin and color of skin. In 2003, Umberto Bossi, founder of the party, which once espoused separatism, told an interviewer that police should open fire on the boatloads of undocumented Africans arriving on Italian shores, calling the would-be immigrants "bingo-bongos." Other Northern League pols have proposed everything from separate trains for immigrants to banning the building of new mosques and even prohibiting the serving of kebabs...
...afternoon, a key ally of Berlusconi's, Northern League chief Umberto Bossi, was declaring that "the mission in Afghanistan has reached its end" and calling for Italy's troops to be brought home by Christmas. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, a die-hard Berlusconi loyalist, said Friday there are no immediate plans for a pullout but expressed serious doubts about the situation in Afghanistan. "Much has to change," Frattini told the daily Corriere della Sera. "There needs to be ... more attention on the people who suffer and on reconstruction. The general vision of the mission must be changed." Frattini wants more...
...Opening Ceremony in New York, the owners' idiosyncratic, personal touch has also proved recession-friendly. In their SoHo boutique, Berkeley grads Umberto Leon and Carol Lim collaborate with designers to offer the truly unique. This fall Chloë Sevigny will launch a menswear collection. And Pendleton, the 100-year-old heritage brand that is a favorite Salvation Army find, will get an update at the shop. Confederacy's Urbinati sums up the trend best: "We have to be original to catch people's attention...
...flaunts his wealth and insults the many magistrates who persistently investigate his business dealings; and, as of late, he has boasted of his Casanova charms, publicly swooning over a former showgirl turned politician, Mara Carfagna, whom he appointed his Minister of Equal Opportunity last year. (His trusted ally Umberto Bossi referred this week to Berlusconi's reputed use of Viagra...
...Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting declared: "The motor bus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the motor bus and are blended with it." Carlo Carrà captured this energy in the kaleidoscopic What the Tram Told Me (1911), while Umberto Boccioni conveys the rush of rail travel in his triptych States of Mind (1911). The second painting in the series, Those Who Go, depicts giant dreaming heads swept along with fragmentary buildings, leaving faded gray figures marooned on the platform in the third panel, Those Who Stay...