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...afternoon break, the two men decided to stroll together through the center of town in front of a cadre of journalists. It was a blatant signal to all that Fazio had anointed Fiorani to be the next banker on the fast-growth track. Perhaps more than the now infamous phone call, the public display in Lodi is evidence of how Fazio has viewed the job he has now held for 12 years. "He says, 'It is I, not the markets, who knows what's best,'" says a Bank of Italy official. "The way he interprets his role...
Fazio's top aides say he feels that resigning would be an admission that he did something wrong. Tito Boeri, an economics professor at Milan's Bocconi University, says the Fazio-Fiorani phone call was "appalling" but not necessarily surprising. "There is no accountability. We really must change the [banking] rules. It even comes before changing the person." Only once the playing field is leveled will Italy begin to attract foreign business leaders for something other than a Chianti getaway...
...over aspects of its program. Still, the U.S. has had to accept that like the NPT itself, ElBaradei may be as good as it gets in terms of a universally accepted nuclear policeman. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was among the first to congratulate the new Nobel laureate by phone...
...from television and newspapers and limited to letters, weekly e-mails and two phone calls a year, they spent two years focused on spreading the gospel of their church. They went to bed at 10:30 p.m. every night, lived with other missionaries, and spent most waking hours working in some capacity for the church...
Nearly all the cynicism I had at the beginning of the summer eroded. Even now, I still receive emails and the occasional phone call from the Church of Scientology. (Despite the tabloid reports, nobody ever coerced me into anything. On the contrary, everyone I met was remarkably polite and open...