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...appreciate their elegance, even on the picket line. Alitalia pilots and flight attendants, dressed in their crisp black-and-green uniforms and aviator sunglasses, have spent decades stylishly shepherding the world to Italy, and Italians abroad. More recently, the handsome crews have also done their part - with plenty of help from Alitalia's inept senior management and shortsighted Italian politicians - to steer the airline on a crash course toward bankruptcy...
...also had the added benefit of being separated from home by an ocean. If I were unmasked as a culinary dud, I’d return to proclaim myself “so over cooking,” and no one would have to know.So after a year of Italian A, a few phone calls, and some generous traveling fellowships, I was off to Hotel Vannucci in Umbria. Other than my arrival date and the hotel’s address, I knew next to nothing about the apprenticeship. I could very easily have agreed to four weeks washing cutting boards...
...much an exploration of how Europeans interpret the land - how people choose to manage their space and how, sometimes, they fail to do so - as it is about the land itself. Through it all Franklin, who holds a Ph.D. in geography, demonstrates an artist's flair. He sees Greek-Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, he says, in the winter light of his Spanish farming photos, and American artist Georgia O'Keeffe in the shapes that form in breaking glacial ice. Most of all, Franklin credits the Romantics and their idea "that these sublime landscapes are both beautiful but terribly precipitous...
...gourmet toppings like chorizo, asiago, and baby shrimp, while slices ($3-$3.50) are limited to cheese, pepperoni, and a daily special. The massive quarter-pie slices are perfect for folding in half and have an elegant ratio of chunky tomato sauce to gooey cheese. Boasting classy ingredients and authentic Italian style thin-crust, will The Upper Crust rival the late-night craving haven Pinocchio’s? “We’re never nervous,” says a Noch’s cashier...
...Roma, one of the highest populations in Europe, have reminded Europeans of a problem many would rather forget. Last spring, local residents angry over crimes they blamed on Roma, burned down Roma camps on the outskirts of both Naples and Rome. Then, in July, a newspaper photographer caught Italian sunbathers relaxing on a beach near the corpses of two teen-aged Roma girls who'd drowned...