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...velinization of Italy continue? There are some signs of a backlash against it - and Berlusconi. Earlier this year, two women parliamentarians argued that he had breached the European Convention of Human Rights for his "repeated statements that offend female dignity." Lorella Zanardo, a management consultant and former Unilever executive, grew so disgusted with the scenes of degradation on Italian television that she made her own video to raise awareness of the problem, splicing together clips from shows. The closing shot, from a show called Joking Apart, shows a woman in a thong hung on a hook in a meat locker...
...billion stimulus package, which helped accelerate the construction of a new subway system, highways and other projects. A similar scenario has been playing out in other western China cities like Chengdu and Chongqing. BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research calculates that the GDP of China's western provinces grew 9.3% in the first half of 2009, compared with 6.5% in the east. This trend is likely to continue. "Growth is shifting to the interior," says Ting Lu, a BofA Merrill Lynch economist...
Nonetheless, as Obama returns to pressing domestic issues and international flash points such as Iran and Afghanistan, two awkward numbers linger in the background: 3.5 and 8.9. The first is the rate of growth for the U.S. in the third quarter of 2009; the second is how fast China grew. And while GDP statistics are a flawed indicator, the contrast between the two economies remains stark...
...film] really grew out of the class History 1961 and was a great way of setting up the argument,” said Ferguson, who holds a joint appointment at the Business School, in an interview on Saturday. “That really helped me to write...
Pertile—who grew up in a small village between Padua and Venice in Northeastern Italy—is also a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and has published widely within the field of Dante scholarship...