'Firebrand of Florence': smashing concert version

For musical theater buffs, flops always are more intriguing than hits — especially if their creators have impeccable credentials. And it doesn't get more classy than Kurt "Threepenny Opera" Weill and Ira "Porgy and Bess" Gershwin.

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Bills, CB Florence agree to terms

The Buffalo Bills agreed to terms with veteran free agent cornerback Drayton Florence late Tuesday night. Terms of the deal were not immediately available.

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Tidbits:  J.Lo deals with revolving door of nannies

While the rest of the world is preoccupied with , Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony could use a little help with their own set of twins. According to the National Enquirer, babies Max and Emme need a new nanny after their last one walked off the job.

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Chargers CB Florence Fined $15K for Hit

Chargers cornerback Drayton Florence was fined $15,000 by the NFL on Thursday for his helmet-to-helmet hit that gave Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub a concussion.

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They were young and in love. Parked on Lovers Lane. They never saw the stranger hiding in the dark. 14 times he struck. 14 young lovers, murdered.

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A 24-year-old American studying in Florence was detained Thursday for questioning in the death of an Italian man, police and news reports said.

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Four people were found shot to death Tuesday in a home in rural north Alabama, and authorities were seeking a man for questioning in the killings.

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Travel: Wildwood Inn, Florence, Kentucky

If you're planning travel to Cincinnati, Ohio or the neighboring area, I recommend staying at the Wildwood Inn & Suites in Florence, Kentucky. The Wildwood Inn opened in 1932. The first room was a one-room cabin that rented for twenty-five cents.

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Raymond De Roover, a Harvard historian, published in 1963 his classic The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank (1397-1494), which opens with the statement that "modern capitalism based on private ownership" was invented by Italian merchants and bankers, by far the most active busi …

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One of the most touching masterpieces of the Renaissance will be welcomed back to Florence's Uffizi Gallery "like a prodigal daughter" after a restoration lasting 10 years.

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SINGAPORE - Bangkok was voted the world's best city for 2008 and the Galapagos were picked as the best islands in an online poll by Travel + Leisure magazine, trumping last year's winners Florence, Italy and Bali, Indonesia.

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The Italian city of Florence is to revoke the exile imposed on the Renaissance poet Dante Aleghieri. Seven hundred years after it sent Dante into lifetime exile on pain of death, Florence is having a re-think.

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A senior priest in Florence is under investigation for fraud after allegedly amassing £3 million by performing fake exorcisms

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It was a symbol of love from the woman he hoped to spend his life with. But when Stanley Cubiss drowned as his ship sank during the First World War, the engraved engagement ring from his sweetheart Florence went with him.

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Illegal immigrants in Italy earning a few coins by washing windscreens at traffic lights could face up to three months in jail after Florence launched a crackdown and other cities said they might follow suit.

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T+L readers seek authentic experiences of place, whether it's art and architecture in favorite European destinations, like Florence (No. 1 overall for the third time) and Prague; urban classics in New York or Hong Kong; or exotic cities such as Fez, Udaipur, or Istanbul.

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The once-endangered Italian wolf has made a remarkable recovery and has come down from the central Italian mountains to be spotted on the outskirts of Florence, park officials said on Tuesday.

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FLORENCE, Italy -- In a city steeped in Renaissance intrigues, add a modern tale of political and artistic dispute: how and why a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci--deemed by many to be an essential draw of the Uffizi Gallery--is being flown halfway around the world to boost trade …

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In the first exhibit of its kind, a Florence, Italy, art museum will put on a photography show catered specially to the blind and visually impaired. The Ansa news agency reported the innovative show would inaugurate the new Alinari National Museum of Photography Wednesday.

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Al Qaeda Warning, Gulf Quake and Khatami

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From the article: Police arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot, the Interior Ministry said Friday, as Pakistani intelligence agents claimed there was an Al Qaeda conn …

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The workshop where Leonardo da Vinci first met and may have begun painting the woman he immortalized as the Mona Lisa has been discovered in a military college.

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Tear gas and small fires were among the disruptions I witnessed at an Italian Cup game on Thursday.

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