Reply #4: Mussolini's mistress wasn't even political

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Yet the Italian partisans in the Piazzale Loreto found a cozy spot for her next to El Duce.

Adding fuel to the controversy is concern within the bank staff over Wolfowitz's reported romantic relationship with Shaha Riza, an Arab feminist who works as a communications adviser in the bank's Middle East and North Africa department.

Both divorced, Wolfowitz and Riza have steadfastly declined to talk publicly about their relationship, but they have been regularly spotted at private functions and one source said the two have been dating for about two years. Riza, an Oxford-educated British citizen who was born in Tunisia and grew up in Saudi Arabia, shares Wolfowitz's passion for democratizing the Middle East, according to people who know her.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45449-2005Mar17.html