

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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











