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...While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi...
...Italian soccer has long been a magnet for fascist nostalgia of the far right, and festivities following its triumph were marred by Swastikas spray-painted on the walls of Rome's historic Jewish quarter, as well as a comment by a former minister in the previous government of Silvio Berlusconi that Italy had triumphed over a team of "negroes, communists and Moslems...
That includes protecting the company's turf. In 1987 Silvio Conte, a Congressman who represented the Massachusetts district where Crane is based, introduced the Conte Amendment, which was passed by Congress and bars foreign suppliers unless no domestic source exists. A Crane competitor, the British paper manufacturer De La Rue, has threatened to complain to the World Trade Organization about the unfair advantage the Conte Amendment gives Crane. Congress also threw up a hurdle for Crane's American competitors. By setting the contract's length at four years, the law makes it difficult for companies without extremely deep pockets...
...kiss of respect with then Mafia "boss of bosses" Salvatore Riina. Andreotti, who is currently a Senator for Life, was definitively absolved of the charges, and there was never any corroborating evidence of the smooch. More recently, Italian Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, one of former center-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's closest aides, was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison for colluding with Cosa Nostra. Dell'Utri, who is free while appealing the decision, denies any wrongdoing and was re-elected to the Senate last month. Palermo prosecutor Antonio Ingroia says the lack of national outrage over...
...ELECTED. Giorgio Napolitano, 80, as the 11th President of Italy; in Rome. Blocked by outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition, which saw the former communist as too left-wing, Napolitano secured a majority backing for his appointment by Italy's Parliament after three failed ballots. As head of state, one of his first tasks will be to invite incoming Prime Minister Romano Prodi to form a new government...