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...European Parliament doesn't have the legal power to impose sanctions against E.U. countries found to have violated human rights by cooperating with the U.S. secret detention program, it can try to prod more member nations into starting criminal investigations. As one of the authors, European Parliament member Giovanni Fava, put it, "This is a report that doesn't allow anyone to look the other...
...with 24-carat gold, is already a destination for both tourists and native aficionados. Oslo is currently completing its own dramatic hall, located at the edge of a fjord, that promises a pristine acoustic environment. The Palau is also taking risks on unusual performances. Classic crowd-pleasers like Don Giovanni and Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle appear in new garb: La Fura dels Baus, the avant-garde theater troupe best known for its choreography of the Barcelona Olympic Games' opening ceremonies, is staging the latter. Inventive new works are being set as well: Milos Forman, for example, is building Well...
...Pliable Pots These malleable vases seem almost claylike in texture, but in fact are composed of flexible steel coils sandwiched between aluminum skins. They come from Italian designer Giovanni Pellone, and can be molded according to your mood - straight one moment, kinky the next. uptoyoutoronton.com...
...threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then the battle must be waged by politicians and law enforcement." One day, they might help get Saviano back on his Vespa...
...stake in EADS to counterbalance the 15% owned by the French state. (The two other big owners are Germany's DaimlerChrysler and France's Lagardère group, both of which reduced their shareholdings this year; Britain's BAE is currently selling its 20% stake in Airbus to EADS.) Giovanni Federico, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, says, "Because of the politics, Airbus certainly won't be able to carry out the sort of cost-cutting that a U.S. firm would now do." Indeed, archrival Boeing has cut more than 50,000 jobs over the past...