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...found Carla Power's article "Silvio's Girls" disappointing [Nov. 30]. Quelli Che ... Il Calcio is a RAI programme and not Mediaset's. What has Berlusconi got to do with RAI? The station is definitely not pro-Berlusconi. Berlusconi is a doer. His actions in Naples, which was cleaned up in a month; his rapid building program in Abruzzo following the earthquake; his measures that pulled Italy out of recession, all of these are proof of his ability. No wonder opinion polls give him close to 70% approval rating. Joe M. Zahra, BIRZEBBUGA, MALTA...
Standing in their uniform miniskirts and stilettos, three young women bend over ironing boards, pressing men's shirts before a live studio audience. They're competing to be schedine, young women who dance a little, wear little and say little on Quelli Che ... Il Calcio (Football Fans), a popular Sunday afternoon show on Italian state TV. "Schedine have to be beautiful, but they've also got to be practical," grins the show's presenter. "Let's see how they do!" An ex-footballer descends to judge the ironing contest, awarding the prize to a lissom blonde...
...Milan talent agency. "Now we get hundreds." A recent poll among young girls in Milan showed their top choice of profession was to be a velina. "Sure, everyone wants to be [one]," shrugs Anna Depoli, a Milanese secretary waiting to take her seat in Quelli Che ... Il Calcio's audience. "If you're a velina, then you have the chance to get to know football players, and if you marry them, you could end up with a lot of money." (See Berlusconi's top 10 worst gaffes...
...soccer. With stingy defense, elegant passing and icy shootout nerves - oh yes, and the little matter of French star Zinedine Zidane's timely late championship game headbutt (and ejection) - Italy's national team won its first World Cup since 1982. To a country that follows the sport of calcio more like popular religion than just a national pastime, it seemed like a sign from the gods...
...soccer, is mainly for the lower orders. The ball can be thrown into play, but play itself is a matter of booting. Most nations cling to the original English name-futbol or fussball or, for the Scots, fu'bo'. But the Italians logically call it il calcio (or if they're Roman, er carcio), meaning "the kick." It is perhaps the only human game theoretically playable by birds...