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...After Fortugno's funeral, police launched a series of coordinated raids in Calabria, Rome and Milan - as well as in Belgium, France, Serbia and Montenegro, and Spain - that has so far netted more than 40 suspected 'Ndrangheta members and associates believed to be involved in the cocaine trade. But Italian officials worry that the clan has a lucrative new financial target in its sights. Earlier this month, a general contractor was chosen to build what will be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge to connect Calabria to Sicily. Antimob investigators say the criminal networks on both sides...
...opponent, Weah, is a former star of the AC Milan soccer team and the 1995 World Footballer of the Year...
Fazio's top aides say he feels that resigning would be an admission that he did something wrong. Tito Boeri, an economics professor at Milan's Bocconi University, says the Fazio-Fiorani phone call was "appalling" but not necessarily surprising. "There is no accountability. We really must change the [banking] rules. It even comes before changing the person." Only once the playing field is leveled will Italy begin to attract foreign business leaders for something other than a Chianti getaway...
...began his apprenticeship with a painter of religious scenes and former pupil of Titian, in Milan. Why did he choose art? Why did he abruptly leave Milan for Rome in 1592, in what would be the first episode of a long series of abrupt departures? Little is known of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, for he did not like to write; he did not even draw, or sketch. Or, if he did, he destroyed all traces, as if he had been afraid of someone following him, trying to figure...
...recent work. While the 39 year-old’s body remained on that beach, his paintings sailed away: Caravaggio’s work outlived him. For centuries, his art was largely criticized as vulgar and lacking imagination. Only in the 1950s, after an exhibit of his work in Milan, was Caravaggio rediscovered...