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...death. Dried-up paint tubes and brushes are strewn about, and his unfinished oil-on-canvas copy of Michelangelo's masterpiece The Doni Tondo is displayed on his easel. Sunlight streams through the skylights, illuminating De Chirico's library of art and philosophy books and his collection of traditional Italian good-luck charms. De Chirico's modern twist on the classical is a fresh and re-energizing dose of Roman art. Reservations must be made in advance. tel: (39-06) 679 6546; www.fondazionedechirico.it
...application last month was routine. The Chinese firm wanted to bring some bras into Italy. Anything but routine, however, was the size of the shipment and the price at which the firm planned to sell the bras: 10 million of them, wholesaling for just 50 cents a dozen. Italians buy about 40 million bras a year, so the 10 million represents three months of total Italian sales. For Paolo Zegna, that request to the Italian government confirmed his worst fears. "It's predatory pricing," fumes Zegna, president of the Italian textile trade group Sistema Moda Italia and co-chief executive...
...limited exports from low-cost producers like China and India. But the reality is worse than their most dire expectations. Chinese companies have massively ramped up foreign sales even as they drop prices. Chinese textile exports to Italy alone jumped by 64% in January and February, according to the Italian national statistics office. In the 15 countries that made up the European Union before last year's accession of a further 10, the volume of Chinese textile and clothing imports rose almost 47% from January 2004 to January 2005. And in some categories, the increases are astronomical. According...
...Creative Accounting? Eurostat refused to certify Greek and Italian deficit data for 2004, suggesting the figures - 6.1% and 3% of GDP respectively - could yet be revised upward. Euro-zone countries' deficits are capped...
...street fighter for the I.R.A., and he gets in even more trouble for hooking up with Grace, a beautiful bohemian artist who happens to be the kept woman of Johnny Farrell, a top-level Tammany Hall fixer, who in turn is worried about the rising power of the Italian gangsters, whose gift for sick violence freaks out even hardened...