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Read all about it
Read more: Read all about itPressed to keep up… In late September 1978, the news agency for which I worked sent me to St. Peter’s Square to interview American passersby and pilgrims about the death of Pope John Paul I, who the previous night had suffered a massive coronary after a 33-day reign. Few I…
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Quo Vadis, Italia Nostra?
Read more: Quo Vadis, Italia Nostra?Political campaigns are good for a party, but Italy is stalled. Every January the Italian think tank Eurispes issues a state-of-Italy report based largely on economic statistics compiled over the previous 12 months. This year the organization caught a bum day, the 25th: Down came the center-left government of Romano…
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Prelude to a vote
Read more: Prelude to a voteThe race between Romano Prodi and incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is likely to be close. It’s a campaign filled with testosterone and neurotoxins. On one side, the prime minister, sensing trouble, follows invective wherever it leads him. Idiot Communists, he warns, are eager to extinguish life as euro-challenged, zero-growth…
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Playing it safe — again
Read more: Playing it safe — againFrancis I of Argentina: A wise but cautious choice. The Roman Catholic Church has suddenly transformed itself into a likeness of the International Olympic Committee or FIFA — or for that matter any global body that seeks a judicious geographical balance in its choice of venues and appointments. The papacy…
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Persistence before aptitude
Read more: Persistence before aptitudeA Winner left, a Winner came. There I was again. Hunched over my paperback Bible, stricken with doubt and eager for inspiration. But this Bible offered no stories of Cain and Abel, of Job, of John’s devotion to the word that was his God. No. It was January 1971 AD…
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Olympic Blues
Read more: Olympic BluesGold medal winner Deborah Compagnoni forged a reputation as Alberto Tomba’s female counterpart and conscience. The pre-Winter Olympics have tripped over a damning word: Indifference. Why, some ask, doesn’t Italy seem to care? After all, it sought the Games. Those seeking an answer among the 10,000-strong media corps now housed…
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