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...recent months, Martini has raised subtle though crucial objections to the Church's steadfast opposition to all circumstances of assisted fertility, distribution of condoms for AIDS victims and so-called "right-to-die" cases. His long cover-story interview last April with the Italian magazine L'Espresso set off an internal Church debate about whether a married AIDS patient's use of a condom is the "lesser of two evils," and a Vatican document on the issue may come out later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Progressive Challenger | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...goods that people don't buy every day, such as TVs, refrigerators, clothes or cars. Since inflation rates are averages, compiled from thousands of prices, the overall level barely moved. The questioning of official inflation statistics is "an issue that makes my liver scream," says Enrico Giovannini, an Italian who works as chief statistician for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, though he concedes that the introduction of the euro brought with it some "terrible problems of perception." (Researchers are busy trying to figure out why - see sidebar.) Economists fear that that the credibility of official statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Good Life Out of Reach? | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...since, despite complaints about the euro, there have been no such drastic side effects. From retail sales to savings patterns, the data appears normal. "There are no indicators that something terrible happened," says Enrico Giovannini, the former head of the Italian statistics office who now works at the O.E.C.D. in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why What Things Used to Be Ain't What They Used to Be | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Born in Rome, the son of a trumpet player, Morricone studied composition at a conservatory but earned his early money as an arranger of Italian pop. As he notes in the 1995 documentary Ennio Morricone, it was one such chart--a raspy, twanging version of Woody Guthrie's Pastures of Plenty for U.S. singer Peter Tevis--that director Sergio Leone asked be adapted for his new western. Remove vocal, add whistling, rev up the guitar volume, and you have the theme for A Fistful of Dollars. This worldwide hit made the careers of Leone, Morricone and the obscure actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Picture: The Music Man with No Name | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Among the key players in the affair were Harvard’s Valentino “The Humidifier” Tosatti, a third-year grad student of Italian lineage who keeps two DDR pads in his office, and two more at his home in the Mediterranean, but nevertheless noted that he is “very much out of training...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Destroys MIT In Cantab Dance-Off | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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