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...President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro may opt for a technocratic manager from outside of politics to form a caretaker government until the next elections. Italy has seen this all before -- at two and a half years, Prodi's tenure was Italy's second longest in postwar history -- which may explain why Milan's stock exchange climbed despite the government's collapse...
...Huskers extended the nation's longest major-college winning streak to 19 games and kept the Cowboys winless against them since 1961--a 35-game stretch. But Nebraska looked beatable after running for just 73 yard--240 under their average...
Many cities are vying for recognition as the first to greet the millennium, but Vancouver humbly bills itself as one of the last major centers to salute the new era. Being last has its advantages. "That makes Vancouver a great place to have the longest celebration possible," boasts Tom Esakin, president of Millennium Vancouver 2000. To keep the party going for everyone, MV2000 is focusing on community building with the motto A BETTER CITY, FOR A BETTER WORLD, IN A BETTER FUTURE...
...Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall spent 60 of his 70 years on screen, on stage and on television. He was in British and American films, as sprightly sages and flabbergasted foils, as Matthew, as two different Caesars and even as a private in "The Longest Day." No role was beneath him, and yet none above him; he loved working, loved show business, and wasn't above hamming it up for Peter Falk in an episode of "Columbo...
Gerhard Schroder is the latest edition to a growing collection of good-looking and affable political leaders of Western democratic nations. He defeated a 300-pound man, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had spent 16 years in office, the longest period of single rule in Germany since Otto von Bismarck's reign over a century...