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ROME, Italy – The poster is all over Rome: “Ci chiami sporco negro e lesbica schifosa. Ma ti offendi se ti chiamamo Italiano mafioso—You call us dirty black man and disgusting lesbian. But you are offended if we call you Italian mafioso.” A bald black man and grey-haired white women are depicted smiling and looking straight ahead. Both appear to be naked, though only their top halves are showing; they have crossed arms (a signal of strength, or perhaps a way of concealing the woman?...
...poster is the brainchild of Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (The Italian Recreational and Cultural Association), a non-for-profit organization that promotes tolerance. It represents the launching of their new campaign against discrimination of all kinds. The first time I saw it, I smiled. This was the “screw you, Lega Nord” that I had been waiting for, that I had been wanting to shout out loud since the very beginning of my stay in Rome. Let me explain...
Amanda Knox has finally spoken. Ever since the 21-year-old American student was arrested in Italy in late 2007 and charged with the grisly murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher, tabloids on both sides of the Atlantic have bubbled with scandal and speculation. Was she, as Italian and British reports suggest, a promiscuous party girl who lived like a slob and took strange men back to the house? Did she, as Italian prosecutors allege, cut Kercher's throat after she refused to take part in group sex with Knox; Knox's boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito...
Observers at the trial in the central Italian hill town of Perugia say there's plenty left for Knox to defend herself against. Forensic evidence includes bloody prints that allegedly match Sollecito's and Knox's feet and a knife found in Sollecito's apartment with the victim's DNA on it. The two have given conflicting accounts of their whereabouts, and there is evidence that the murder scene was tampered with before police arrived. Then there's the confession, in which Knox said she was at the house during the killing but blamed her boss, bar owner Patrick Lumumba...
...West Bank settlements. As if that wasn't clear enough, Netanyahu this week derided the Administration's concern over settlements as a red herring. "I think the more we spend time arguing about this, the more we waste time instead of moving towards peace," he told an Italian TV interviewer...