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...Ridley Scott's American Gangster, which is based on the true story of a drug lord named Frank Lucas, who in the 1970s cornered the Harlem heroin market and thereby made millions upon millions. He is a black man, no less a member of a struggling underclass than his Italian and Irish movie predecessors, and he has a couple of gimmicks that they (who were never drug dealers) didn't have. For one thing, he eliminated the middle men; he bought his smack directly from sources in Southeast Asia and smuggled it into the country, often in the body bags...
...everywhere. Throughout the day, he spoke to three packed auditoriums, and met with officials at the U.N.'s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Telecom Italia. In between, he taped an interview at Vatican Radio, lunched with two top advisers to Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, reviewed strategy with his own staff and fielded a proposal to distribute the computers in Florence and some of its 20 sister cities around the world. Prodi has committed Italy to donating 50,000 of the laptops to Ethiopia, while the Vatican potential is particularly enticing...
...further colorful twist, the lawyer claiming to represent Strachan is an Italian named Giovanni di Stefano. The Guardian newspaper once profiled di Stefano, a personal friend of Saddam Hussein's, describing the Italian's then client roster as "a veritable rogues' gallery of the most notorious criminals of the past few decades." Di Stefano told the Daily Mail newspaper that Strachan denies asking for money for the tape but was offered money for it by the alleged victim's office. According to the Daily Mail, the lawyer said the tape shows "an assistant to a member of the royal family...
PHILADELPHIA HAS ITS cheesesteak, Chicago has its bratwurst, and, thanks to Vincent DeDomenico, San Francisco has Rice-A-Roni. The sons of Italian immigrants, DeDomenico and his brothers began experimenting with food recipes at their parents' pasta business during the 1930s, mixing ingredients like long-grain white rice, pieces of vermicelli and chicken broth. Eventually they hit the jackpot, creating packaged, easy-to-make rice and pasta dishes. In 1986 they sold their company to Quaker Oats for about $300 million. DeDomenico...
...stroll down Zabkowska from west to east offers a blast of vibrant street culture, but be sure to peek into the quiet courtyards of the buildings that line it. At No. 13, for example, you can see an external wooden staircase dating back to 1870. Stop for Italian-style antipasti at Lysy Pingwin bistro, 11 Zabkowska Street, tel: (48-22) 616 02 56, or for a sandwich at the antiques-furnished W Oparach Absurdu café, which also has live concerts starting at 8 p.m. on weekends (6 Zabkowska Street, tel: (48-22) 660 780 319; www.oparyabsurdu.pl...