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May days
Read more: May daysThe Red Brigades left Moro’s body in central Rome. Anecdotes were our campfire songs. The night before it ended, Anette told us the threesome story: She, a blue-eyed Dutch brunette with boot-camp hair, and the two unctuous Italians from Ostia. One was her dentist; the other — she loved this…
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Maximum funness
Read more: Maximum funnessThe iAll Lifespan 11.0 has both washer-drier and maid service function. Meet the iAll. All new design. All new features. It doesn’t seem possible. That an iAll with so much — larger display, faster chip, workout facilities, Chinese takeout — could give you even more. But it does. The iAll…
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Malaparte in letters
Read more: Malaparte in lettersCurzio Malaparte was born Kurt Erich Suckert. By late 1949, noted Italian author Curzio Malaparte (born Kurt Erich Suckert to a German Protestant father in Prato) had settled in Jouy en Josas outside Paris. Preoccupied with publishing his latest novel, “La Pelle,” in the United States, he sought assistance from…
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Long John
Read more: Long JohnLong John Chinaglia scored 24 goals in the 1973-74 Seria A season to bring Lazio a title and make his autograph precious. Pino Wilson advised me to approach Long John with care. He’d had it with journalists, said Wilson. With fans, too. Unsettling words, since there I stood in the…
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Lilli Gruber
Read more: Lilli GruberLilli Gruber. Award-winning television anchor Lilli Gruber resigned from embattled state broadcaster RAI in April 2004, charging Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with ignoring conflict of interest issues and intentionally undermining the free flow of news. Berlusconi owns the country’s three main private television channels. Running on the center-left Olive Branch…
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John Kerry
Read more: John KerryRome’s Democrats are hoping. Rarely has a race for the American presidency evoked such fervor among U.S. citizens living abroad than the one that now pits incumbent Republican George W. Bush against Democratic Senator John Kerry. The turbulent debate has polarized even those who seek a gentler kind of regime…
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