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...Alemanno has built a reputation as an articulate protégé of Gianfranco Fini, the rightist leader who brought the post-fascist movement into the mainstream in 1993 with the founding of the National Alliance party. Alemanno served as agriculture minister in Berlusconi's 2001-2006 government, and was allied in the mayoral run with Berlusconi backers in the newly formed Freedom Party. After years of centrist Christian Democratic mayors and a 15-year grip by the center-left, Rome now has its first rightist mayor since World...
...force was due to arrive. The European troops are under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians, but Sudan's security chiefs fear the operation could be a staging post for intervention in Darfur. Chadian rebels see the real role of the mostly French troops as defending France's prot...
...strike left a bitter legacy. Some of the activists, like Leno and Dreesen, never worked in the Comedy Store again. Some who crossed the picket line later regretted it. "There were a lot of personal attacks on Mitzi, and I felt protective of her," says Mike Binder, a protégé of Leno's, who continued to work during the strike. "But it was a mistake. I didn't understand the magnitude of it. She was a bad horse to back." Mitzi, complaining that she could no longer afford to keep all her showrooms open on slow nights, shut...
This is not to suggest that Putin has any intention of simply fading away: he clearly intends to watch over the doings of his protégé Medvedev. For the moment, there is rightly a sense of relief that Putin has not anointed yet another former member of the FSB to become President. The Russian stock exchange has applauded. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch has pitched in his blessing. Russian newspapers have exulted. Unfortunately, the basic reality of Russia's politics is likely to remain as unmeltable as Siberian permafrost...
...Zemin, by the end of the Party Congress Hu had largely cemented his leadership for the next five years. He had engineered the departure from the Politburo of Zeng Qinghong, a Jiang ally who wielded enormous influence in the party. He had also stage-managed the promotion of several protégés to senior positions in the party's highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase for implementing a more socially equitable, sustainable and deliberate approach to China's economic growth in coming years - enshrined in the party...