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Climbing down: Berkeley tree sit ends after nearly 2 years.(THIS WEEK)(Brief article)
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September 15, 2008|
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September 15, 2008
Whoever says that the good old days of non-violent, direct action environmental protest are gone may finally be right. Last week four tree-sitters abandoned their perch--after 21 months when as many as 150 different protestors participated off and on--atop an 80-foot redwood tree that formerly sat amidst an oak grove in the middle of the University of California's Berkeley campus. Hours later, arborists took down the tree, the last of more than three dozen on a piece of land slated to house a new $125 million university sports complex.
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Sicilian vespers; Italy and the Mafia.(New Mafia arrests in Italy)(Gaetano Lo Presti)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...Pagliarelli jail. The apparent suicide of a 52-year-old Sicilian, Gaetano Lo Presti, on December 16th put a grisly end to what investigators claimed was a drive by the Sicilian Mafia to give itself a new leadership. Mr Lo Presti was among...
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Sicilian vespers; Italy.(The campaign in Sicily)(Mafia)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...but it will certainly stop a repetition of last time's Sicilian-style clean sweep. Sicily matters, which is one reason...politics has been so great. Roughly one in every ten Italians is Sicilian, and the island will choose 60 of the 630 seats in the lower...
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'Vespers': A musical lingua franca Music
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...better known in Italian versions.In addition, for ''The Sicilian Vespers,'' Verdi was inflicted with a libretto by Eugene Scribe...The original story has to do with an uprising by oppressed Sicilians against the occupying French troops in the late 13th century...
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THE REAL SICILY, THROUGH ITS FICTION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...first place, the Sicilian Vespers, whence comes the opera...name given in history to the Sicilian massacre of a couple of thousand...triggered by a French outrage to Sicilian womanhood) began as the bell...fact is, as an emblem for Sicilian tradition, you cannot improve...don't get my ideas ...
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History on the Road:The Painted Carts of Sicily
Magazine article from: Voices
; ...that characterize the carretto. Sicilian folklorist Giuseppe Pitre (1841...famous operas; and battles from the Sicilian Vespers, the Risorgimento, the two world...only researched the cart and other Sicilian folk arts, but also was responsible...
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IN AN ITALIAN GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...describes the painting of the market by Sicilian artist Renato Guttuso that has...was not an event as remote as the Sicilian Vespers but instead the work of the 1950s...last days he adopted a mysterious Sicilian youth who became his official heir...
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BSO HAS A REUNION WITH A REPLACEMENT
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Federico Cortese, who opened with Verdi. The rowdy "Sicilian Vespers" Overture from Verdi's early middle period was...worlds. Toscanini liked to open concerts with the "Sicilian Vespers," and Cortese's reading had some of the same...
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Opera's Verdi a golden moment.(LIFE - ARTS ETC.)(MUSIC)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...pageantry. "I Vespri Siciliani" ("The Sicilian Vespers") recounts a little-known 13th-century Sicilian revolt against tyrannical French occupiers...governor, Monforte, and the implacable Sicilian hero, Procida. Both Republicans and...
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Verdi's `Vespri Siciliani' returns to Met for the first time in 22 years
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...in Palermo on March 30, 1282, the Sicilian Vespers, when the locals massacred the French...come courage)," when she urges Sicilians to revolt, but warmed in a part where...hall, a fortress and gardens. The Sicilians wear black for the most part, the French...
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National Opera celebrates 50.(LIFE)(PARTY LINES)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...I Vespri Siciliani" ("The Sicilian Vespers"). "I'm just happy that everyone...as a large chorus portraying a Sicilian uprising against French occupying...could not be present, contributed Sicilian wines for the meal. "Viva Verdi...
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