Benito Mussolini

Ezra Pound's daughter takes on Italian fascist group CasaPound

2011-12-30 16:34:59

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Norman Corwin dies at 101; radio's 'poet laureate'

2011-10-19 00:00:00

Norman Corwin, the legendary writer, director and producer of original radio plays for CBS during the golden age of radio in the 1930s and '40s when he was revered as the "poet of the airwaves," has died. He was 101. Corwin, a journalist, playwright,...

Secrets of Rome revealed

2010-10-31 00:00:00

After living in Rome for almost three years, I moved back to the U.S. at the beginning of the summer. I packed up my apartment, gave my books to friends and left my potted plants for the next tenant. Now someone else is standing at the window overlooking...

In Libya, a long-dead hero rises again in east

2011-05-06 00:00:00

What's the meanest thing you can say to a liberal?

2011-02-01 16:35:24

The Kvarner Islands: Adriatic idyll

2011-03-08 13:09:00

I'm walking along a stretch of the Adriatic Sea that reminds me of another time, another hemisphere. It's not the forest of pine trees that offers shade along the seawall on a poster-perfect 70-degree day. It's not the little docked boats bobbing up and...

PASSINGS: Robert Katz, Mervyn Hardinge

2010-10-22 00:00:00

Robert Katz Historian wrote 'Death in Rome' Robert Katz, 77, a writer and historian whose meticulous reconstruction of an infamous Nazi massacre in Rome brought him fame and sparked a trial over whether he defamed the pope, died Wednesday in a...

An Oscar for Benito Mussolini?

2009-11-01 21:32:53

Sports Legend Revealed: Did Johan Cruyff sit out the 1978 World Cup as a political protest?

2010-06-22 16:33:33

'Vincere': The rise of Il Duce and the woman he left behind

2010-03-24 16:35:34

Who Doesn't Have a Nobel Prize Nomination?

2005-12-04 00:00:00

MANY advocates of clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams note that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in literature for his anti-gang work, which includes writing children's books. How could a convicted murderer and co-...

What 'The Daily Show' cut out

2008-01-22 00:00:00

If you're like me, you probably watch Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." If you're like me, you probably also turn to reruns of "Scrubs" or "Seinfeld" when the newsmaker interview comes on. If that's the case, you probably missed me and Jon Stewart...

During the final days of World War II, Howard Norton, a war correspondent for the Sunpapers, took a 200-mile dash by Jeep in the hopes of interviewing the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini while the despot was still alive. Norton arrived one day too late.

2012-05-02 23:05:24

The bronze masterpiece represents the legend of Romulus and Remus, twins raised by a she-wolf after the overthrow of their father.

2011-05-09 08:02:31

Filippo Timi and Giovanna Mezzogiorno star as Benito Mussolini and the wife he abandoned.

2010-03-16 11:44:46