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...that sets La Bella Figura apart. Rather, it's how intimately Severgnini discusses his countrymen - he makes you feel as if he's introducing you to old friends. Even though La Bella Figura poses as an introduction to the Italian mind, it's as much an introduction to the author, proving that he's just as contradictory as his countrymen. If he saw an elderly lady in need of help with her luggage, "I would split in two. While Beppe was being a Good Samaritan, Severgnini would observe the scene and offer congratulations. Beppe would then acknowledge his own compliment...
First there were The Rules. Then came He's Just Not That Into You. Can there possibly be anything left to say to women about the do's and don'ts of dating? Absolutely, says Giuliana DePandi, 30, the co-anchor with Ryan Seacrest on E! News and author of Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One (St. Martin's Griffin). DePandi gives 66 tips for dating success for women of any age. And they work, she promises: she declares herself "head over heels In love" with her Mr. Right, who she says...
...William Johnstone, a staff member of the 9/11 Commission and author of the 2006 book 9/11 and the Future of Transportation Security, says that since 9/11 "the privatized security and the federal screeners have performed as well as or as badly as the other. To Mr. Argenbright's point, 9/11 was a systemic flaw bigger than the failure of some screeners. Part of federalizing was to reassure the public that security was better. It was worth it for the public to know a major break had been made from the past...
...explosion of religious-oriented travel? Three factors, says Wright, who is the author of three travel guides for the faithful. The first, he says, is simple demographics: "In the last census, there were 8 million more people identified as Christians than a decade ago." Second, is the broader boom in international travel. According to Wright, 45% more Americans are traveling overseas today than 10 years ago. Third, says Wright, "people of faith increasingly want a personal experience of their faith...
...come out finally." GUNTER GRASS, Nobel-prizewinning German author and peace activist, after admitting that he had served in Hitler's élite Waffen SS; he told a German newspaper it had been weighing heavily on his mind...