Word: italianity
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...leather chair in Orascom Telecom's ornate Paris office. "I take a lot of risks, but calculated risks." Now Sawiris stands on the edge of his biggest gamble, and it's not in an unstable country. This month he closed a massive $15.6 billion deal with the Italian utility Enel to acquire a 62% stake in its mobile-phone network, Wind. Sawiris borrowed more than $12 billion...
...knows the labyrinthine world of Venice or the way favoritism and corruption shape Italian life like Leon's Brunetti. Blood from a Stone is not her best plot, but fortunately all 13 other Brunettis are now in paperback for those who have not yet met the thoughtful Venetian cop with a love of food, an outspoken wife and a computer-hacker secretary who plays man Friday to his detective...
DIED. TONINO DELLI COLLI, 81, prolific Italian cinematographer whose adaptive nature and masterly use of light allowed him to capture the moods of such noted directors as Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski; in Rome. Delli Colli gave a distinct look to every film he worked on--choosing supersaturated hues for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and unadorned black and white for his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He retired his camera after shooting Life Is Beautiful...
...expatriate Cuban community in Miami. The Cuban exile community had been angered by DeFede's column about a trip to Cuba to report on Luis Posada Carriles, who allegedly was involved with the downing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 and several bombings in Havana that killed an Italian tourist in the late 1990s...
...Occupying one-third of a standard room, each bathroom features walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, looking over the city skyline as well as into the bedroom. As for amenities, there's a rooftop pool and spa (the views are stunning) and a glitzy restaurant, Cornerstone, which serves modern Italian cuisine. Looks like Seoul-bound fashionistas finally have the hotel they, and the city, deserve...