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Too deep
Read more: Too deepEfforts to save Alfredo Rampi turned into a black carnival as hundreds crowded the scene. This report was first published on June 1, 2007. The American reprints it biannually to shed light on life in Rome five decades ago. When the Rome fire brigade official finally got got through to the boy…
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The wolf and the lamb
Read more: The wolf and the lambBin Laden: The hunt meets the man. Give a manhunt long enough and the hunt meets the man, with almost inevitable consequences. A time for American celebration? Perhaps. Public raving is a rite of national virility. Young nations have an exhibitionist streak. No surprise there. More interesting is the alignment…
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The spirit of Catanzaro
Read more: The spirit of CatanzaroThe ancient city of Catanzaro is home to some of the best eye surgeons. Italy has long been modern Europe’s foremost repository for offhand clichés. Italians, according to other Europeans, simply could not (and would not) do right by modernity. Dictator Benito Mussolini only made matters worse by insisting Italian…
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The speech
Read more: The speechThere were many good lines, chromatic yin-yang glistening. What fine rhetoric this new president summoned. What pretty words he shaped from ice and storm, clouds and courage. Restorative is the word. Listen is what I do not do. I don’t even watch. Instead, I read. And reading I wonder to…
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The Schumi method
Read more: The Schumi methodSchumacher can sensibly be called the Parmalat antidote, the Italian scene’s superior anti-cliché. He is, believe it, a demitasse-size John F. Kerry (not Kennedy, Kerry) who likes visiting Texas with his wife and kids. His handshake is soft-skinned but hard-muscled. He is not, says a friend, pedantic about being a…
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The Russia house
Read more: The Russia houseWhen national defects became cardinal virtues. Two centuries ago, Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin traveled to Europe and returned a changed man. What he’d seen surpassed the prowess of any given state. For him, Europe was “the capital of the arts and sciences, the depository all the intellectual and human treasures…
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