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...Italian American, I find it offensive that one would associate Lino with a terrible mafioso just because he is Italian. This is comparable to calling a German housemaster a Nazi, or an African American housemaster a Gangster...
...mention neutral) Swiss franc attracted depositors. After France, incensed by the loss of revenue, raided a Swiss bank's office in Paris and revealed the names on its accounts, the Swiss passed a law in 1934 making such disclosures criminal. Years later, Swiss banks both sheltered the assets of German Jews and accepted looted Nazi gold (and later set up a $1.25 billion compensation fund for Holocaust victims). Corrupt leaders ranging from the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to Nigeria's Sani Abacha have used Swiss banks to hide ill-gotten gains. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...from the table to serve as occasional teaching aids. The wines lining the walls were originally selected by Ron Georgiou, one of just 264 Masters of Wine in the world, and the restaurant regularly attracts special guests who put their own twist on the wine list - celebrated German wine-maker Egon Müller popped in last year...
...German capital, which this year commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, has undergone rapid changes in the past few years. Right after the wall came down, there was an abundance of cheap living space, especially in the East, where dozens of abandoned apartments - and even entire apartment buildings - were just waiting for squatters to move in. Today most of the squats have been renovated and transformed into legal, more upscale housing. (See pictures of the Berlin Wall...
...protests that began last summer, aimed at a group of people that local magazine Zitty has dubbed Porno-Hippie-Swabian, referring to the inhabitants of Swabia, a region in southern Germany. "It's a deliberately exaggerated negative stereotype for people who come to Berlin from the wealthy southern German states and buy expensive apartments in Prenzlauer Berg," explains Technau. Several anti-gentrification groups launched poster campaigns that got the attention of the local and national media. "Swabians in Prenzlauer Berg ... what do you actually want here?" one of the posters read...