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Mothers and Fathers of Italian Ancestry. Italy, which took consecutive Palmes back in the 1970s (for Padre, Padrone and Tree of the Wooden Clogs) but only one since (The Son's Room in 2001), was back in force this year with two strong films, both of them fact-based melodramas about the deadly reach of organized crime...
Many a king has marched into Naples. German-born monarchs sailed in from Sicily. Bourbon conquerors came over from Spain. Napoleon's brother and brother-in-law landed in their royal vestments too. And now, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the exquisitely attired and democratically elected incarnation of modern Italian royalty swept into this troubled coastal city, bringing his can-do Milanese attitude and a small army of cabinet ministers. But these days, conquering Naples is most of all a matter of picking up the garbage...
...immigration, was also on the cabinet's agenda Wednesday. The government put forward a controversial bill to make it a crime to be an undocumented foreigner, as well as the introduction of measures aimed at stopping the Roma, or gypsy, population, from living in camps on the outskirts of Italian cities...
...years, Lamont won’t be the only place where students cram for finals. Last week, the Harvard Art Museum released images of planned renovations to the Sackler, Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums, due to be renovated over the next five years. Designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the renovations will physically unite the three current museums, and will feature ample study rooms and an open courtyard conducive to working. Plans to change the structure of the Harvard Art Museum buildings have been in the works since 2003, when current Museum director Thomas W. Lentz was appointed...
...they ever make it, they're unlikely to receive a warm welcome there either. On Thursday, in a sweep aimed at combating illegal immigration, Italian police took nearly 400 people into custody and immediately deported more than 50, according to the Interior Ministry. The coordinated effort, carried out in cities throughout the country, was the high-profile follow-through for the recently installed government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The new Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, is the No. 2 official of the Northern League, a party which takes a hard line against immigration. He pledged further police action against illegal...