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...take power away from this media deity and bring some reason to the administration. If not, Berlusconi’s deceptive “Italian way” will finish eroding the last remnants of la dolce vita and push the country even deeper into Dante’s Inferno. Pierpaolo Barbieri ‘09, a Crimson editoiral editor, lives in Thayer hall...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri, | Title: Italians Do It Better | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

...marched into a stadium originally erected by former Fascist leader Benito Mussolini to several ancient tunes, such as Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, KC & the Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man and the Village People's Y.M.C.A. Are these the Winter Olympic Games or a disco inferno? It does make some sense. For this is a country particularly proud of Infernos. Indeed, after the thump-thump-thumping came a reading from the poet-prophet Dante, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from The Divine Comedy. In it, Ulysses urges his aging and tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bravissimo Torino! | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...world marched into a stadium originally erected by the dictator Benito Mussolini to several ancient tunes, such as Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, KC & the Sunshine Band's I'm Your Boogie Man and the Village People's Y.M.C.A. Are these the Winter Olympic Games or a disco inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Upon A Winter's Night... | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...does make some sense. For this is Italy, a country particularly proud of infernos. Indeed, after the thump, thump, thumping came a reading from the peninsula's poet-prophet, with the Italian actor Giorgio Albertazzi reciting an inspiring passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. In a fiery scene, scores of legs kicked in the air, evoking the sinners' feet in the Inferno's Canto XX. How unholy is the thrill when you sense that the circles of hell have, in the end, been transformed into the Olympic rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Upon A Winter's Night... | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match or beat: the medals won by Americans at the Games in Salt Lake City, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Once Upon A Winter's Night... | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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