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...left-wing commentator's show was canceled after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accused him and two other presenters of making "criminal use" of RAI, the biggest public television network in Italy. Santoro waged a long court battle against the broadcaster and prevailed, going back on the air in 2006. Earlier this month, however, RAI suspended all of its political talk programming until regional elections are held on March 28, citing a need to maintain its political balance. This time, Santoro decided that his show, Annozero, would go on. He filmed a live version of his program Thursday that was streamed...
Northwest Corner is divided into three components, officially named Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, and the Clinical Wing. The entire Corner is now frequently referred to as “Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical,” or “WCC” for short. The Clinical Wing serves as a potential naming opportunity for a major donor...
...School alumnus Finn M. W. Caspersen gave $30 million—the largest gift in the Law School’s history—to fund a wing of the Northwest Corner. After he committed suicide in 2009, media outlets reported that he was under investigation by the IRS for tax evasion, but McCrossan said there has been no indication that his gift to the Law School will be clawed back due to the IRS inquiries...
Conservatives blame Sarkozy for their resounding defeat. Some right-wing officials now insist it's time the President abandons his mix-and-match policy decisions and return to basics. "This is a real defeat for us, and it carries a message we have to retain: we must go back to the fundamentals," says Jean-François Copé, president of the UMP's parliamentary group. "Those are what got Nicolas Sarkozy elected in 2007." (Read "Nicolas Sarkozy: A Grand Entrance...
...Observers sympathetic to Netanyahu paint him as the prisoner of a right-wing coalition in which settlers and other extremist elements are well represented. Making concessions on Jerusalem, the argument goes, would force the collapse of Netanyahu's government. Perhaps, but what that argument ignores is that, if he wants to make concessions for peace, Netanyahu has a willing coalition partner available in the form of the centrist Kadima Party, whose 28 seats make it the largest party in the 120-seat parliament. Together with the 27 held by his own Likud Party and the 13 held by Labor (which...