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...Francesco Rutelli, the former Rome mayor and Italian Culture Minister who now heads the city council opposition, is not impressed. Rutelli says Rome's current center-right administration's ideas for expanding culture are just rehashed, low-brow plans to make a quick buck. "Gladiators at the Coliseum? Compliments for originality," he quipped. "They must have had a think tank of Nobel laureates working in secret to come up with this...
...though his jaw is still square, Alemanno is notably quicker to smile than he was in his tough-guy, jean-jacketed youth. That is all the more true after his surprise victory on Monday's elections, when he soundly defeated former mayor and prominent center-left leader Francesco Rutelli by a 54 to 46 margin...
...weeks after center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi swept back into the Prime Minister's office by roundly defeating Walter Veltroni, who had served the past six years as Rome mayor. When he took up his campaign for national office, Veltroni passed the capital's center-left baton back to Rutelli, who had been a popular mayor through the 1990s. Rutelli, a vice-premier and high-profile culture minister under the recently folded government of Romano Prodi, had been strongly favored to defeat the center-right upstart in the Rome race. His failure to deliver is bound to cause new rifts...
...After no mayor candidate secured a 50% majority in April 13-14 elections, Rutelli and Alemanno upped their attacks against each other in the closing days, with much of rhetoric circulating around the issue of public safety after a high-profile rape case in Rome. Rutelli said Alemanno's populistic exploitation of law-and-order issues helped explain his victory...
...museums crawl out of the blast crater produced by the Rutelli campaign, it may be that the conversation on these possibilities will get seriously under way. In November, U.S. museum professionals met with their Italian counterparts in Rome to discuss ways to increase cooperation, for instance, by simplifying the process for loans from Italy. Meanwhile, the full-court press to enforce the laws continues. In January scores of federal agents raided four museums and an art gallery in Southern California in connection with an investigation into trafficking in Asian and Native American...