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...CHOSEN. Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, 71, Archbishop of Genoa, as Pope Benedict XVI's next secretary of state; in the Vatican. A longtime aide to the current Pope, Cardinal Bertone will become the Vatican's de facto prime minister, replacing fellow Italian Angelo Cardinal Sodano in September...
...young man's relationship with his famous silver-haired grandfather. The death of this formidable figure and of Gianni's younger brother Umberto Agnelli, both from cancer within a 16-month span, created the vacuum that forced Elkann - the eldest child of Gianni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and French-Italian writer Alain Elkann - to step to the fore ahead of schedule. He did so amid the company's two-year crisis that came, in 2002, from weak management and damaged brand image, and forced a €3 billion bank bailout to stave off potential bankruptcy. "If the situation had been...
...when his grandfather died, with top political leaders and ordinary citizens flocking to the wake and funeral, sealed the family's decision to commit to Fiat's future - even if it meant the hard work of selling assets, overhauling management and reinvesting in the core company, hardly the typical Italian way of doing business. "This country paid a great tribute to my grandfather," Elkann said. "It was a family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain...
...Foreign films. Remember them? Graybeards dissolve in a puddle of fond memories as they recall the days, a few decades back, when movies in French, Swedish, Japanese, Italian and a half-dozen other languages set the medium?s standard for excellence. To be cinematically literate - "cinemate," to borrow a term Time proposed in a 1963 cover story heralding the first New York Film Festival - one had to be able to discuss the hidden narrative meanings and formal innovations of pictures like The Seventh Seal and Last Year at Marienbad. Foreign films had snob appeal and sex appeal. Or they...
...overlooked gem: Johnson & Wales University's food-focused gallery in its culinary college, where recent exhibits celebrated the American diner and the august history of Mr. Potato Head. With a culinary school in town, of course there's good eating. Federal Hill - center of the city's large Italian community - is one of America's best, if least known, Little Italys; try one of the many raviolis - plump with lobster, spinach, basil - at Venda Ravioli on Atwells Avenue, vendaravioli.com. For more innovative fare, head to the Mills Tavern, an 1850s mill turned bistro on North Main Street...