2004

  • Jack’s Riddle

    Jack’s Riddle

    USA Today reporter Jack Kelley. This story is largely about the fate of an American journalist named Jack Kelley. Let…

  • The Schumi method

    The Schumi method

    Schumacher can sensibly be called the Parmalat antidote, the Italian scene’s superior anti-cliché. He is, believe it, a demitasse-size John…

  • Global Kelley

    Global Kelley

    A case of piling on. Since writing about my former USA Today colleague Jack Kelley, a number of things have…

  • Alan Levy, RIP

    Alan Levy, RIP

    Alan Levy, 1932-2004. Mourning is a trickster that can fool sentiment into being what it’s not, genuinely devoted. We mourn…

  • Un feeling

    Un feeling

    Oh, what a feeling… George W. Bush has always been about a broad sense of things, what Italians call “un…

  • Mary

    Mary

    Mary McGrory, 1918-2004 The Mary McGrory I knew did not much like drama, unless she was its agent. We met…

  • Bush League?

    Bush League?

    President George W. Bush, here with Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, draws mixed reviews among Italians. In the final pages…

  • We’re getting word…

    We’re getting word…

    Madrid: Collecting the dead. BC-Italy-Terror Blast,0976 – URGENT At least 400 dead in terrorist blasts at historic Rome square ROME, Italy…

  • Tentacles

    Tentacles

    Kennedy in 1963 Berlin: talking to evil Recovery’s the word Or is it? Look at the dollar. Look at the…

  • So Cool

    So Cool

    When the dirty laundry comes round. Moral authority depends on a public belief in legitimate power. When moral authority goes…

  • Abu Ghraib

    Abu Ghraib

    How do you spell defeat? Abu Ghraib. While the newspaper phrase “eager mayhem” may best portray the mood of American…

  • Saviors

    Saviors

    South Vietnam’s “savior.” Speak of Ahmad Chalabi and the names Diem, Ky, and Thieu also make the roll call. Chalabi…

  • Giorgio Cappon

    Giorgio Cappon

    When America could talk: George C. Marshall beside Harry Truman in 1948. Giorgio Cappon was a capable, honest and decent…

  • Lilli Gruber

    Lilli Gruber

    Lilli Gruber. Award-winning television anchor Lilli Gruber resigned from embattled state broadcaster RAI in April 2004, charging Prime Minister Silvio…

  • Taverna

    Taverna

    Watching, waiting, relaxing… The Berlin Wall of our age is security run amok. The new Cold War is terrorism anxiety.…