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...invasion of up to 500,000 visitors a day -- five times the city's capacity, according to the opponents' estimates. Even without the Expo, Italian tourism will reach record levels by the turn of the century: 2000 is a Holy Year, when tourists will flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea of the Expo is to control tourism, not increase...
...their universities are run. Hundreds of professors have been fired, some because they were Communist Party loyalists, others because students deemed them incompetent or uninspiring. At Prague's Academy of Fine Arts, students have , dismissed all but two of their 39 instructors. They have hired an outspoken new rector: Milan Knizak, 50, a long-haired multimedia artist who sports three earrings in each ear. Knizak has rejected the school's slogan, which said the purpose of art was to help build socialism. Declares Knizak: "The artist is responsible only to himself...
...businesswoman or a middle-of-the-road matron can find places to squander cash this year, especially since manufacturers often ship their products with longer lengths, leaving it to stores or customers to chop or not. Lacroix kept his dazzlement to color instead of radical shapes, and at Dior Milan's Gianfranco Ferre produced a strong line of sleek, sophisticated clothes. No giddy gambits here, but what looks like an insurance policy for the historic fashion house...
When Capriati was three, her father Stefano, a self-taught tennis pro who emigrated from Milan, put a racquet into her hands; by the time she was four, she was fending off barrages from a ball machine and was delivered into the tutelage of Jimmy Evert, whose most famous coaching product was his daughter Christine Marie. Last year Capriati won the 18-and-under titles at the French and U.S. Opens and made the junior quarterfinals at Wimbledon...
...even this analogy falls flat because it is simply impossible to imagine an America in a position of conflict and vulnerability analogous to Israel's. Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as "one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear and knows it." Czechoslovakia is a small nation. Judea was. Israel...