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Dead man walking
Read more: Dead man walkingMaurizio Gasparri of Alleanza Nazonale made his views clear, while the situation in the Italian Senate has an eloquence all its own. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has formed a new government after an upper house rebuke over foreign policy briefly cost him his job. Prodi’s center-left coalition was forced…
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Complotti
Read more: ComplottiWhen unreasonable suspicion overturns reasonable doubt. Italy treasures conspiracy theories. Groups of people, not individuals, cause big events to occur. Anything meaningful is connived and contrived, either through deliberate scheming or equally deliberate omission. John Kennedy was not killed by one man but by a cabal of enemies. The ouster…
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Claudio Cappon
Read more: Claudio CapponClaudio Cappon: “My job isn’t to moralize RAI or change Italian culture.” In 1964, Columbia University-trained journalist Luigi Barzini published a popular study of Italian national character called “The Italians.” Written in lucid English, the book divided Italy between geniuses and gigolos, the inventive and the impressionable. It sold briskly.…
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Castle and moat
Read more: Castle and moatThe success of psychological warfare. The extreme left-wing urban guerrilla movements of the European 1970s generally justified their actions in terms of a number of ugly but organized steps. Heinous acts of political violence would produce social anxiety and with it institutional backlash. “Disoriented” and resentful government would then cite…
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Carnal knowledge
Read more: Carnal knowledgeI’d feel better “with ‘compagnia bella’, he said. My Italian publisher had an immoveable vision regarding love affairs. They were about sex alone. Whenever I mentioned a relationship gone wrong he’d sigh as if compelled against his will to speak to a child. “Why be upset,” he’d say, “you had her.” My…
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Bush League?
Read more: Bush League?President George W. Bush, here with Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, draws mixed reviews among Italians. In the final pages of his scathing political biography “George, The Life and Miracles of a Fortunate Son,” veteran Italian foreign correspondent Vittorio Zucconi gives up figuring out what makes President George W. Bush…
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