Italian authorities on Wednesday seized about euro200 million ($284 million) in assets and businesses owned by a crime syndicate, including the Cafe de Paris of “La Dolce Vita” movie fame.
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Having triviliazed Italian culture by choosing these particular conversational topics as most important to understanding the way of the Italian–and a special section on how to gesticulate like an Italian–it begs the question how carefully Guardian editors considered they risked making stereotypical caricatures of the Italian people.
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Italian politicians Anna Paola Concia and Jean Leonard Touadì show some skin to battle xenophobia in Italy.
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Access is everything. Every phone call I make from the AP office begins with the same greeting, “Buon giorno, io sono Chiara Sottile. Chiamo dal Associated Press, l’agenzia stampa.” [Good day, my name is Chiara Sottile. I am calling from the Associated Press, a news agency."] It is with this introduction that I made a [...]
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Covering this story was a true lesson in how quickly and continuously news develops, particularly when the headline involves the Holy Father!
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Visitors to Italy, and avid travelers everywhere, often speak of a desire to find “authenticity:” to discover and experience their destination as a local would. As culinary authenticity goes, the only way to truly accomplish this task is to purchase one’s food at an open air market.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi would hate my new Roman neighborhood. It symbolizes the kind of multicultural Italy that Berlusconi abhors. On May 10th, the Prime Minister said at a Press Conference, “the idea of the left is to make a multiethnic Italy. This [idea] is not ours. Ours is to welcome only people of color [...]
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Even in our globalized world–in which professionals hold video conferences across hemispheres on a daily basis, and we buy products manufactured oceans away without batting an eye–it always strikes me how curious people who originate from different countries are about each other. An industrialized western country, Italy is not exactly worlds away from that to [...]
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