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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Franco Fido says he can buy Italian books for half the price in his native Italy. But Fido adds that Schoenhof's must charge these prices to survive financially...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Schoenhof's Brings the World to the Square | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...emergence of Sonia Gandhi as spokesperson of the Congress party has created more profound dilemmas. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi and heir apparent to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for nearly 40 of the past 50 years, Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Roman Catholic who became an Indian Citizen only 12 years ago. Her cross-country campaign for Congress has sparked debates over the question "Who is an Indian...

Author: By Pooja Bhatia, | Title: Hope for A New India | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...invective of prominent nationalist leader, Bal Thackeray, against Sonia Gandhi reveals BJP unease at her appeal. "I will not allow any white-skin to rule this country," Thackeray was reported as saying in a Reuters release. "This Italian woman can never become our prime minister. Have we lost our masculinity? Did we throw out the British to invite this foreigner...

Author: By Pooja Bhatia, | Title: Hope for A New India | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose department was sued by the feds last year for excessive force against inmates, could not be happier. More than 1,000 prisoners in his custody are jammed into Korean War Army tents, and it must be miserable out there, he tells the enthralled Italian American Society at a sausage feed. "There's holes in the tents," he says for the fifth or sixth time that day, grinning like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Giuliani, who may be the only Italian in the Greater New York area with no trace of personal charm, cannot be imagined in La Guardia's most memorable mayor-as-character role--reading the funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy Giuliani, Proctor of New York | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

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