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...would be fulfilled - that supernaturalism would be replaced by scientific investigation and reason. John Moorman Tifton, Georgia, U.S. Battle of the Binge I love the English. It's sad that your article did not probe more deeply into why the English binge drink more than the French and the Italians [Dec. 19]. It may be a combination of circumstances both natural and man-made: the dismally damp weather of Britain, the lackluster cuisine and the Brits' Victorian heritage. Angelo Forlenza San Jose, California, U.S. You noted that the British government has extended the hours that pubs and bars can stay...
...said she does not foresee a threat to the academic security of particular Romance languages.“I don’t believe that it will suddenly boost the study of Portuguese and Romanian (which would be a good thing in itself) at the detriment of Spanish, French, Italian and less studied romance languages such as Catalan,” she wrote. “The motivations for studying these languages will remain diverse and strong, with or without financial incentive.”According to students, though, an extra $4,000 wouldn’t hurt...
...wasn't just U.S. media, there were various Italian agencies that ran with a lot of details, and a Kuwaiti news agency that ran with it, they all pulled it down,? the Monitor?s managing editor, Marshall Ingwerson, told Editor & Publisher. ?Basically, everyone who ran with it, once we reached them, was cooperative. I was surprised and very heartened that people were so willing to help...
...Insurgents have kidnapped 36 reporters since April 2004, when abductions surged, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Most were released, but RAI correspondent Enzo Baldoni, an Italian, was killed in August 2004. Steven Vincent, an American freelancer, was killed in Basra in August 2005. The number of Iraqi journalists killed or kidnapped is much higher. ?Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism,? said Aidan White, General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists. ?No journalist is safe once they take to the streets...
...DIED. URBANO LAZZARO, 81, Italian Communist resistance fighter credited with arresting Mussolini as the Fascist dictator tried to flee Italy in the final days of World War II; in Vercelli, Italy. As the Nazis retreated in April 1945, Lazzaro spotted Mussolini disguised as a German soldier in a convoy that he and fellow partisan fighters had stopped on a road near the village of Dongo. Mussolini was executed the next...