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...denies. Good intelligence - and the fear the Mob evokes across Sicily through its code of silence, omertà - keeps Provenzano out of prison. There were reports that he checked into a clinic three years ago in the southern city of Agrigento for what some believe is a prostate illness. Aldo Piscopo, the medical director of the clinic, Clinica Sant'Anna, doesn't deny the possibility, but says: "How could we have known? We are busy here, and he obviously wouldn't walk in with an identity card with his name on it." Magistrate Prestipino knows that silence is the biggest...
...close to those in Italy. This past spring, Grande Fratello achieved its highest viewership since its sensational first edition in 2000, with a weekly share of 34% over three months, and more than 11 million viewers (in a country of 58 million) tuning in for May's final episode. Aldo Grasso, a professor of mass media at Milan's Catholic University and the TV critic for Corriere della Sera, says Italy has been watching this show for centuries: "Italians can talk about nothing for hours. Our theatrical tradition is rather modest because the real theater is in the streets...
...EGYPT Police arrested two members of Italy 's ultra-leftist Red Brigades group convicted in absentia of terrorist activities by Italian courts. One of the two, Rita Algranati, was sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 1978 kidnapping and murder of two-time Prime Minister Aldo Moro. In the Crosshairs MIDDLE EAST Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and threatened to resume assassinations of Palestinian militants after a Hamas suicide bombing - the group's first carried out by a woman - killed four Israelis at a border crossing. Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Zeev Boim named Hamas' spiritual leader...
...teahouses. In her heyday in the 1960s, she was earning $500,000 a year, and her face adorned everything from posters to shopping bags. Iwasaki entertained world leaders and assorted celebrities, including Prince Charles, who scrawled his name?uninvited?on one of her favorite fans, and fashion designer Aldo Gucci, who spilled soy sauce on her kimono. The memoir details $5,000 costumes, how rice bran is good for softening skin and the difficulty of wearing okobo, or six-inch platform sandals. In his novel, Golden immersed the reader in the geisha world. Iwasaki tells about it, and there...
...with what he modestly called "the hand of God." Then, in 1998, Argentina defeated England again after midfield star David Beckham was sent off for a dumb but arguably minor foul. This time, wonder boy Beckham is again the story. Six weeks ago, Deportivo La Coru?a's Argentine midfielder Aldo Duscher felled Beckham in a game against Manchester United, breaking a bone in the Englishman's foot. Nonetheless, Beckham expects to be fit when England confronts Argentina June...