Word: italianity
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...Italian. I've been to the cemetery at Omaha Beach, touched hundreds of white crosses, read the names of the dead, prayed, cried and said thank you to all Americans for my liberty. On 9/11, I was traveling in California, and I was emotionally destroyed. When U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan, I supported them. When Bush decided to invade Iraq, I wasn't sure about the weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but I trusted the Americans. When no stockpiles of WMD were found, I turned against Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After the scandal...
...cold, with crusts of snow packed into the stone, she wore threadbare sneakers from which her little toes stuck out, and she was smoking….I pursued her through the museum. It was, as museums go, rather intimate, built around a skylight-roofed replica of a sixteenth-century Italian courtyard...
...agenda in Italy, where the Catholic Church's influence remains strongest. Perhaps to defuse the issue, some politicians even question whether marriage is such a great idea in the first place. "Marriage has been a tragedy for heterosexuals," argues Vittorio Sgarbi, a gay marriage supporter and former Italian Culture Ministry official. Ségolène Royal, a French Socialist seen by many as a possible presidential candidate in 2007 (who lives, unmarried, with Socialist Party first secretary François Hollande and their four children), has avoided taking a position on the debate, which she says has taken...
...least not from prominent politicians. But then, not every country can have such drama-packed politics as India. First the incumbent prime minister and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party were trounced by India’s Congress party, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born wife and daughter-in-law of two former prime ministers. Then Gandhi declared that she would decline the post she had just won, prompting members of her party to descend on her home in droves, some of them writing letters in their own blood urging her to change her mind, others threatening...
Only India's movie moguls might have imagined the saga of a beautiful Italian girl who follows her prince to a faraway land, finding love, tragedy and heartbreak before finally triumphing as a leader of her adopted people. Last week the story came true. TV pundits who for months had predicted Sonia Gandhi's disastrous election defeat found themselves explaining a sensational victory instead. Outgoing Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee grudgingly praised the "strong and diverse" democracy that rejected him. But most dazed of all, it seemed, was Sonia...