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Concerned about Italy's decrepit highways and bad economy, Enrico Piaggio refocused the family company on the future transportation needs of the Italian masses. He built a prototype of a small motorcycle used by parachutists and known as the MP5, or ?Paperino? (Italian for Donald Duck). But Piaggio was not satisfied with the design, so he asked Corradino D'Ascanio, an aeronautical engineer who had designed one of the first modern helicopters, to overhaul it. D'Ascanio hated motorcycles and quickly transformed the MP5 into a revolutionary scooter based on airplane technology. The vehicle had a single steel chassis...
FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER the death of Ken Scott at age 72, Italian silk mill Isa Seta is reviving his designs. An American who settled in Italy, ?the gardener of fashion? was famous for splashing wild-colored peonies, anemones and roses all over his prints. Milan insiders like Angela Missoni and Lawrence Steele have been collecting vintage Scott, and now the design duo Paolo Battaglia and Antonio Ponte has culled from the archives eight of Scott's iconic prints?from the '50s through the early '70s?to reinvent the label in a ready-to-wear collection focused on fitted, slim...
...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...
...speech Sands delivered last week in which he first advanced the argument that administration lawyers could be internationally liable for their advice. Sands concluded his appearance by asserting that international law will ultimately prevail. Even for superpowers like the U.S, actions are not cost-free, he said, citing Italian prosecutors’ charges against CIA officers following the alleged abduction of individuals on Italian soil, and the recent European Parliament investigation regarding transport of suspected terrorists from the Middle East to undisclosed locations for interrogation...
...convincing them that our interests and their interests are congruent,” Gardner said. Gardner discussed his recent book, “Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War,” in which he traced American attempts to contain Eurocommunism, the rise of the Italian Red Brigades, and the buildup of nuclear weapons in Europe. “I wrote the book because I strongly believe that if you have been privileged enough to be working in policy, you have an obligation to tell a story of the inner workings of government...