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...husband," Kaja laments as a surly Cologne teenager. "Here, on the other hand, I lived a kind of extended childhood, in which everything seemed to be an apprenticeship and nothing is done entirely seriously." Di Natale's apprenticeship as a writer is entirely serious. Her second novel, Il Giardino del Luppolo (The Hop Garden), published last year in Italy, is about a young German in the 1920s who has hallucinatory premonitions of Hitler's rise. This month comes her latest, L'Ombre del Cerro (Shadow of the Turkey Oak), about two friends struggling to survive the wartime chaos...
...late 2002; they are trying to enforce a fragile 2003 peace agreement between government forces in the south and insurgents controlling the north. Combatants will be given until mid-December to restore the cease-fire and prepare power-sharing arrangements under the 2003 accord. - By Bruce Crumley and Carrie Giardino...
Maurizio Cardano, a city councilman in Naples, where housing is in such short supply that many newlyweds have to live with their parents, had an idea. Why not set aside a few acres of police-protected parkland overlooking the Bay of Naples as a giardino dell'eros, or love garden, where young couples could park their cars and safely enjoy a bit of privacy? But Cardano's suggestion has drawn a storm of protest, especially from the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic weekly grumbled that it would "legitimize fornication and extramarital adventures." Corrado Cardinal Ursi told a crowd...
...student absenteeism climbed to 60%, city attorneys sought a criminal-contempt citation against U.F.T. leaders for violating the earlier court order; Shanker and his aides could go to jail, while the union could be fined up to $10,000 a day. Negotiations, meanwhile, reached a standstill. Alfred Giardino, president of the board of education, charged that "to the U.F.T., negotiation is a one-way street-the board must accept its lists of many demands or else...
...Glee Club Rm. Philosophy 14b Emerson J Physics 5 Emerson J Semitic 1 Emerson J Spanish 5 Harvard 2 2 o'clock Geography 12 Geol. Mus. 41 TOMORROW Astronomy 3 Astron. Lab. Botany 1 Geol. Lect. Rm. Chemistry 5 Sever 35 Comp. Philology 5 Sever 18 Economics 2 Alcock-Giardino Sever 5 Glaser-McArdle Sever 6 McLaughlin-Yu Sever 11 Engin. Sciences 5b. Pierce 307 English 7 Adlington-Cheever Emerson A Clark-Grimm Emerson F Gurney-Wirth Emerson J Fine Arts 2a Fogg Mus. French 30 Harvard 5 German 1c Emerson D German 4 Sever 18 Government 1 Mr. Boyd...