Flatiron Managing Partner Jerry Colonna says that little has changed, though he admits he explored bringing in new investors.

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Even if Bulgari's hotels turn out not to make any money, the venture could be considered an expensive, yet effective, advertising campaign, says Antoine Colonna of Merrill Lynch in Paris.

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And it is making money when many flagship shops of luxury-goods firms are kept afloat only to gratify the egos of their owners, says Antoine Colonna, a luxury-goods analyst at Merrill Lynch.

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There is frustration at the failure of negotiations to lead anywhere, and resentment at the arrest of Mr Colonna, which some see as a sign of the return of a policy of repression.

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The people of Crotone are accustomed to making a nocturnal pilgrimage in their thousands on foot to Capo Colonna to pray before a Byzantine portrait of Mary in the small chapel on the promontory.

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But shots rang out in Colonna Square near a busy shopping and strolling area shortly after 11:30 a.m. just as Premier Enrico Letta and his new ministers were taking their oaths at the Quirinal presidential office about a kilometer (half mile) away.

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