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...made her name defending former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in a Mob-influence trial in the 1990s. With cropped hair, tennis shoes and expensive man suits under her judicial robe, Bongiorno wages attacks on the prosecution case that are sharply focused and often delivered with a withering blizzard of Neapolitan hand gestures and disdain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough Women of the Amanda Knox Case | 9/29/2009 | See Source »

...beach holiday on the enchanting island of Sardinia, the surprise star was Totò, a pint-size, black-and-white, eight-month-old mixed-breed from Naples whom our friends brought along to a house we shared near the southern town of Pula. Totò - named for the famed Neapolitan comedian, not Dorothy's pooch - has exactly one trick in his repertoire: misbehaving. He swiped everything from pasta al pesto to a half-pound of butter off the kitchen table, ran around the yard with a neighbor's flip-flop between his teeth, and even left a summer-holiday gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canine Lifeguards Hit Italy's Beaches | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...done nothing to improve Naples' reputation. Now however, the streets are clean again. With a new incinerator set to open and the recent wave of Camorra arrests suggesting that the government is finally tackling the roots of the problem, the city should stay shipshape. Our suggestions for the perfect Neapolitan weekend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Do Naples | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...room at Hotel San Francesco al Monte, www.hotelsanfrancesco.it, a stylishly renovated 16th century ex-convent, with outdoor pool, in the hilltop Vomero quarter. Toast the start of your weekend at Pescheria Mattiucci, www.pescheriamattiucci.com, a tiny fish restaurant. The aperitivo hour, which rolls on until 10 p.m., sees hip Neapolitans wash down line-caught, sushi-style snacks with ice-cold white wine. Then step back in time at the majolica-tiled Osteria della Matonella, tel: (39-081) 416 541, where pasta alla Genoves (with veal and onions) and rum baba testify to 35 years of mama-licious Neapolitan cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Do Naples | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Since April, the coverage of the 72-year-old billionaire mogul turned 
 politico has read like something between an airport romance novel and soft porn. On April 26, Berlusconi showed up at the 18th birthday party of leggy Neapolitan blond Noemi Letizia with the gift of a diamond necklace. Within two days, Berlusconi's wife of 20 years, Veronica Lario, announced she wanted a divorce, claiming that her husband "frequents underage females." (See Berlusconi's Worst Gaffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Silvio Berlusconi | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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