Word: locarno
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...woman who fall in love despite religious differences." As she puts it, "Nothing brings out the poignancy of love more than when it's pitted against the ruthlessness of war." Sen has clearly struck a chord: the movie won a Junior Jury prize for best director at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, and the script earned her a Netpac Jury prize for "courage in raising an issue of relevance in a work of cinematic density...
Luigi-Gino Fasulo had little in common with Mohamed Atta. An affable Italian native who ran an air-taxi business from the lakeside Swiss town of Locarno, Fasulo lived light-years from the bitterness of anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism that fueled the Sept. 11 attacks. But for a long, breathless moment last week after the 67-year-old pilot crashed a small plane into Milan's tallest skyscraper, the world couldn't help thinking back to the indelible images of the World Trade Center's tragic demise orchestrated by the Egyptian-born Atta. As investigators try to figure out what...
Fasulo took off at 5:15 p.m. from Locarno Airport heading to Linate Airport on the outskirts of Milan. Nearly 30 minutes later he radioed the Linate tower saying that he had minor landing gear problems and asked for clearance as he approached from the north. But he ignored subsequent directions from the tower to circle near the airstrip and suddenly turned westward toward downtown. Moments later his altitude dropped suddenly and the plane pierced the building in a perfectly horizontal position, according to witnesses. The day after the crash, one of Fasulo's two sons was quoted...