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Indeed, throughout the last month, both students, faculty and HUDS employees have been incredibly supportive of her, said Judith R. Della Barba, HUDS director of human resources...
...Friends' first big project: the restoration in 2002 of all 10 pieces of marble statuary in the Loggia of Piazza della Signoria?an outdoor room of the Uffizi. This year, patrons were allowed to choose their favorite among 22 16th century paintings in the Accademia's Tribune (home of Michelangelo's David), and have their names appear on a plaque below the painting as the major donor for its restoration. Mel Gibson and his wife chose Alessandro Allori's Madonna Enthroned. Says Brandolini: "There was an explosion of color because these are all Mannerist paintings. It was the first time...
...Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi. His transfer a year ago from the helm of the Genoa Archdiocese to the world's largest one, in Milan, was akin to winning a party's nomination. "He's a natural candidate," says longtime Vatican watcher Luigi Accattoli of Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. Tettamanzi, 69, stands out in the pack because he is favored by the Italian Cardinals, who are eager to take back the papacy...
...front-page cartoon in Corriere Della Sera, Italy's leading daily, said it all. A scrum of center-left opposition figures - communists, reformers, party chairmen, union bosses - hoisted a man named Gianfranco Fini on their shoulders and shouted: finalmente un leader! Finally - but Fini is no center-left leader. He's head of the right-wing, "post-fascist" National Alliance Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition. The opposition can't stand Berlusconi, but they were feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should...
...Archbishop of Milan, Dionigi Tettamanzi. His transfer a year ago from the helm of the Genoa Archdiocese to the world's largest one, in Milan, was akin to winning a party nomination. "He's a natural candidate," says longtime Vatican watcher Luigi Accattoli of Italy's leading daily Corriere della Sera. Tettamanzi, 69, stands out in the pack because he is favored by the Italian Cardinals, who are eager to take back the papacy. Short, pudgy and quick to smile, the Milan leader has few enemies - a miraculous accomplishment in Vatican circles - and seems to win friends across the ideological...