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Just one question. Why should anybody be perplexed about Mara Carfagna's participation in Italian political life? She was a model and now she is a brilliant minister. After all, nobody complained about Sarah Palin or Yulia Tymoshenko who are both famously beautiful, have gone into politics and have done a great job, just like Mara Carfagna. Max Annati, MILAN, ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi's Success | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...case that engrossed observers on both sides of the Atlantic, American student Amanda Knox, 22, and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 25, were convicted on Dec. 4 of murdering Meredith Kercher--Knox's British roommate--in Perugia, Italy, on Nov. 1, 2007. Knox was ordered to serve 26 years in prison; Sollecito received 25. The prosecution contended that Knox persuaded Sollecito and Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast native who was convicted of the murder in a separate trial, into attempting to sexually assault Kercher before Knox stabbed her in the neck with a kitchen knife. In some ways, the verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...year, although media reports have put the number as high as 70,000. But the impact of the criminal practice on the economy is quite clear - business lobbyists and corruption experts say it is paralyzing small- and mid-sized businesses, as well as scaring off foreign investment. "If an Italian is doing business here and is targeted in a raider attack, he's going to tell his countrymen," says Alexander Brechalov, vice president of Opora, a Russian lobbying group for small businesses. "Who is going to want to come to Russia after hearing that? It's an epidemic that needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danger of Doing Business in Russia | 12/19/2009 | See Source »

After serving as a Harvard professor for almost 15 years, renowned Dante scholar Lino Pertile will assume the directorship of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, next summer, the University announced Wednesday...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante Scholar To Lead Harvard Center in Italy | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...fellows each year, but to the many scholars who come back from past years, and others who come to work in the library,” Connors wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson from Italy. “He will be a natural bridge between American and Italian scholarship, as hehas been for his whole career...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante Scholar To Lead Harvard Center in Italy | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

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