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...such a variety of ways to exhibit poor judgment? Jurors in the trial of former Tyco CEO DENNIS KOZLOWSKI, flanked here by a pair of hired Roman revelers, watched a 21-minute videotape last week of a $2 million birthday party Kozlowski threw for his wife on the Italian island of Sardinia in 2001. Kozlowski, who stuck his firm with half the tab for the blowout, is accused of bilking Tyco out of $600 million. He appears on the tape promising partygoers a week of "eating, drinking...all the things we're best known for." Many trial watchers shared...
...With my heart in my mouth/Because your love is everything to me/I know you may make me suffer/But I'll never let you go." SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italian Prime Minister, in a song he wrote for his newly released debut album of love ballads...
DIED. FRANCO CORELLI, 82, powerhouse Italian tenor; in Milan. Largely self-taught, he was faulted by critics for the raw passion in his singing but adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than...
...when Countess Simonetta Brandolini d'Adda, an American who has lived in Florence with her Italian husband for 30 years, saw the need to help protect and preserve the city's staggering cultural legacy, she thought of her own countrymen. "So many Americans have a special rapport with Florence," says Brandolini, who sells and rents out luxury Italian properties through her real-estate agency, The Best in Italy. "They come back to Florence all the time." Thus in 1998 was born Friends of Florence, fashioned after the nonprofit art and architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington...
...skip and a jump from Harvard Square, the newest restaurant addition to the Porter Square area offers moderately priced Italian food. The good-sized dining area lends itself to larger parties, and groups will love sharing the restaurant’s above-average appetizers. Conveniently located and pleasant, Guiseppes is great for a casual night...