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...afternoon, a key ally of Berlusconi's, Northern League chief Umberto Bossi, was declaring that "the mission in Afghanistan has reached its end" and calling for Italy's troops to be brought home by Christmas. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, a die-hard Berlusconi loyalist, said Friday there are no immediate plans for a pullout but expressed serious doubts about the situation in Afghanistan. "Much has to change," Frattini told the daily Corriere della Sera. "There needs to be ... more attention on the people who suffer and on reconstruction. The general vision of the mission must be changed." Frattini wants more...
...Some dishes were best forgotten: "There are recipes preserved in the Tour d'Argent archives from the period of the Franco-Prussian War for cat, even rat!" says Ribaut, referring to the records of the celebrated Parisian restaurant that claims over 400 years of history. But the overall loss of recipes deprived modern Parisian chefs of a precious base for creativity. "Composers like Bartók or Stravinksy composed variations on old, traditional airs, and cuisine is the same thing," adds Ribaut, who has personally unearthed many forgotten dishes. (Watch TIME's video "Bocuse d'Or: Americans in a French...
...challenging popular prejudice, instead of pandering to it. For an example of how popular opinion can change it includes a revealing statistic from the past: in 1954, 51% of French people told pollsters that they had a negative view of the German people and only 29% thought a Franco-German alliance would work. Now, both those countries are standing together in the way of a similar deal with Turkey...
...Repubblica is owned by Carlo De Benedetti, a business rival of Berlusconi's with interests in energy, automobiles and health care. Il Sole 24 Ore, the country's financial paper, is owned by Italy's main industrial lobby. "Italian entrepreneurs tend to depend largely on Italian politics," says Ricardo Franco Levi, an opposition parliamentarian and the former editor in chief of L'Indipendente, a short-lived 1991 attempt at a truly independent newspaper. "The possibilities of aggressive reporting are very, very limited." (Read: "The Berlusconi Tapes: 5 Ways to Evade the Scandal...
...parties, forever suffering from "the fear that there were better parties you'd not been invited to, a higher tier of pleasure that was forbidden to you." I countered my own lack of invites by fleeing to such sanctuaries as Osteria alla Bifora, tel: (39-41) 523 6119, where Franco, the irascible and rotund proprietor, buffs and polishes a gleaming red 70-year-old meat slicer with the care most men would pay a Ferrari. Or there's Osteria ai 4 Feri, tel: (39-41) 520 6978, where the favorite is spaghetti alle vongole, and you can slurp...