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...popularity shows, Switzerland has yet to make its peace with immigrants, despite how central to the economy they have been and - with a falling birth rate and aging population - are still. Postwar Switzerland was built by Italian "guest workers," many of whom eventually won the right to settle, and today perhaps a quarter of the nation's workforce are non-Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Crisis for the Swiss | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and some Italian. In my family, there are a few people who speak seven languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Shakira | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Maestro Gianpaolo Valli whips such students into shape. "You need to know what makes a strawberry!" he shouts. His lively lectures, delivered in deliriously Italian-cadenced, non sequitur - studded English, cover such topics as how to identify a fruit's sugar content and how to do the surprisingly complicated math of balancing sugar (an antifreeze) and fat (the opposite): "You increase the fat content, but it freezes. So you need to compensate with sugar. You say, 'Maestro, not possible!' Yes, it is possible! I show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato U. | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of Italian coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato U. | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...have dined and congratulated their heroes, often with a civic purpose attached—but not always—in a fashion expected of leaders of nations and leaders of culture. Chavez, however, takes this to levels of absurdity that Sarkozy could not match even with his marriage to Italian pop icon Carla Bruni. Chavez meets with specifically outspoken supporters of himself. With Chavez, the situation is not the mutual respect of respected, recognized individual’s in today’s society. Chavez will meet with anyone who—and this is key—will meet...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Chavez Can’t Shun the Spotlight | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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