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 AC Milan moved to within one point of leaders Juventus with two games to play after the Rossoneri grabbed a 2-0 win over Atalanta at the San Siro on Wednesday.

Sulley Muntari struck the opener inside of 10 minutes and Robinho netted the second goal in stoppage time to revive Milan's title hopes.
 

 One may not have believed that a movie, produced in 1972, involving an entwinement of  violence and family love would develop into a cinematic masterpiece and fuel two equally commendable sequels, essentially setting a demanding standard for films of the gangster-genre for many years to come.  Such a production is credited to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, based off of Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel, The Godfather. 

Whenever folks ask me where they might find the better values in wine coming from Italy, I pull a sort of "Horacio" Greeley on them and say, "Go south, go south."Though southern Italian place names and wine grape varieties are unfamiliar to us (which goes a long way toward explaining why the wines are overlooked or unknown), they are Italy's best combination of skilled winemaking, big flavor and low price.  

 In the same eventful spring of 1861 that marked the outbreak of the American Civil War, Italy declared its existence as a united kingdom. In fact, just as the bombardment of an island fortress in Charleston, S.C., riveted the attention of a nation plunging into civil war, the kingdom of southern Italy made a last-ditch stand against northern Italian bombardment of a waterfront fortress midway between Rome and Naples. The two sieges, of Fort Sumter and of Gaeta, came only weeks apart.