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...Italy, the Vatican's political influence remains strong enough to keep gay rights off the official agenda. In March the Italian parliament passed one of the most stringent assisted - fertility laws in Europe?it bans donor sperm, donor eggs and surrogate motherhood, which same - sex couples could use to have children, and limits assisted - fertility treatments to "stable" heterosexual couples...
...European Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso faces an uproar in the European Parliament that could cost him his job before it's even slated to begin on Nov. 1. Barroso's problem starts with his designated Commissioner for Justice, Security and Freedom, Rocco Buttiglione, formerly Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's Minister for European Affairs. When he testified on Oct. 5 before the Parliament, Buttiglione mentioned that he considers homosexuality a sin and holds the "traditional" view that marriage is meant to give a "woman the right to have children and the protection of a man." These...
...MOMA. Although the architect has a number of choice projects to his credit in Japan, including eight museums, the man is so little known in the U.S. that one baffled well-wisher congratulated Terence Riley, MOMA's chief curator of architecture and design, thinking the museum had selected an Italian architect, Tony Gucci. In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture, of Frank Gehry's voluptuous Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, MOMA has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum...
...eateries, such as the Blue Point Oyster bar (an upscale diner that claims the city's freshest oysters), Sushi Wabi (if you like artful fish and don't mind tight spaces) or Marché (a latter-day French Surrealist bistro). Want quick takeout with local color? Grab an Italian beef sandwich at Mr. Beef's on Orleans. The hard core order it "wet," with the roll soaked in gravy...
...rival the new Boeing 7E7, the fuel-efficient, long-haul plane that will carry between 200 and 300 passengers. The European Commission accuses Washington of hypocrisy. It insists that not only will the 7E7 benefit from subsidies in the form of a reduced state sales tax, but Japanese and Italian governments are subsidizing their own companies with Boeing subcontracts for the new plane. Some Europeans find the timing of the U.S. challenge suspect. "Is it just a coincidence that the WTO complaint came between two national debates when President Bush is falling in the polls?" ponders a Commission official. Boeing...