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...Petrella's extradition to Rome still pending, French authorities now face a harrowing decision: whether to hand over a convicted killer likely to die if her imprisonment continues; or release a woman with an irreproachable record during her 15 years in France, and thereby spark the fury of Italian officials and the families of her victims who still demand justice...
...made political points--sometimes anti-U.S., often against the Egyptian hierarchy--but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain, whether with the underclass tragedy Cairo Station (1958) or with a delirious love story like The Other (1999). Influenced by Hollywood comedy, Italian neorealism and Indian musical melodramas, he tossed everything--ideas, people, whole nations and regions--up in the air for the intoxicated viewer to try to catch...
...Sozzani has turned Vogue Italia into one of the most respected publications in women's fashion, even though it's not among the top sellers (it has a circulation of 120,000 and is written in Italian). The magazine has caught worldwide attention in the past not only for its eye for fashion trends, but for features on terrorism, drug abuse and plastic surgery. Sozzani says she has always aspired to reach beyond Italy, and was quick to react when her colleagues in the U.S. and U.K. were missing this black fashion moment. "I've always wanted to bring...
...Sozzani isn't the only one taking notice of the Chicago super-couple's fashion sense. Michelle Obama recently made Vanity Fair's best-dressed list for the second year running, while Italian designer Donatella Versace says the presumptive Democratic nominee was the inspiration for her Spring 2009 line, as the new "relaxed man" look. One question no fashion maven can answer: Will Obama still meet that description after the rigors still ahead in the campaign...
...holiday is invariably loaded with meaning. It's the reason President Bill Clinton headed for the Wyoming mountains for a vacation in 1996 after his pollster told him his preferred spot, Martha's Vineyard, was seen by swing voters as too snooty. It explains why, in 2003, when an Italian tourism official likened Germans to "stereotyped blonds with hyper-nationalist pride ... who noisily invade our beaches", Germany's then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder nixed a vacation in Italy in favor of two weeks in Hanover. (That spat's long over: Schröder's successor Angela Merkel is rumored...