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...before they could arrive, the secret negotiations were thrown in jeopardy when Italian authorities, acting on information from U.S. officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure...
...race head-on: should ethnicity be a factor in granting citizenship? There are a small number of respectable scholars, like Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington, who argue that the large Hispanic influx into America does threaten its character. A large number of other respectable scholars say German, Irish, Italian, Jewish and Asian immigrants faced the same criticism throughout the country's history. But until politicians define the goals of American immigration policy - who and how many do we want and for what reason - it will be impossible to strip out the influence of anti-immigrant forces who, whether racist...
...RESIGNED. Franco Carraro, 66, Italian football federation president, amid a growing match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Carraro is under investigation along with some 40 other officials and referees and four Serie A football clubs, including Juventus and AC Milan. On May 4, Italian newspapers sparked the scandal by publishing telephone taps of Juventus director Luciano Moggi discussing referee assignments for club matches with a refereeing official. Juventus's board of directors, including Moggi, resigned en masse last week...
...dining room underwent one of the biggest?and fastest?makeovers. A floor-to-ceiling fireplace and handblown Italian chandeliers were added, and the dowdy pale-wood seating was updated with buttercream-colored leather banquettes?all in seven days. Meanwhile, the 52 rooms and 39 suites were being meticulously refurbished, with plush silk tones replacing swirly floral patterns that recalled the 1940s...
...tension driving Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti's latest work sounds familiar, it should. A down-and-out B-movie producer unwittingly signs on to make a fiercely critical film about the rise of an Italian media mogul turned Prime Minister. Efforts to finish the film are thwarted by unseen political and economic forces. And the Italian politician is so despised by his cinematic nemeses that they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent...