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...Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), withdrew its ministers; another, the National Alliance (AN), threatened to do likewise. So Berlusconi quit, but quickly formed a new government by reshuffling his Cabinet. He appointed former Treasury Minister and Berlusconi loyalist Giulio Tremonti as deputy PM in place of UDC chief Marco Follini, who has distanced himself from the floundering leader. The Prime Minister had enjoyed the longest uninterrupted span in power since World War II, but his popularity has taken a hit and now he will struggle to make badly needed economic reforms before the next elections, which must be held...
...Adjusts His Set Last week the government of Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was in crisis. His center-right coalition, shaken by overwhelming losses in regional elections earlier this month and bitter debate over the leader's tax and economic policies, began to disintegrate: one Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Follini, resigned and withdrew his ministers from the Cabinet, raising the possibility of early elections. But financially, Berlusconi the media tycoon had a great week: his family's holding company announced the sale of 197 million shares in the Mediaset group - which owns all three of Italy's major private...
...study published early this year, Dr. Marco Battaglia of San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, recruited 49 third- and fourth-grade children and administered questionnaires to rank them along a commonly accepted shyness scale. He showed each child a series of pictures of faces exhibiting joy, anger or no emotion at all and asked them to identify the expressions. The children who scored high on the shyness meter, it turned out, had a consistently hard time deciphering the neutral and the angry faces...
...Catalan Atlas, commissioned by the crown prince of Aragon as a present for the 13-year-old Charles VI of France in 1375. The work of Cresques Abraham, the "master of maps and compasses" of the Spanish court, the Atlas was the earliest map to incorporate the travels of Marco Polo a century earlier, and thus sketched a recognizable outline of Asia that would be refined over the next 500 years of exploration. It includes a Europeanate illustration of Beijing and a portrait of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Cresques doesn't skimp on detail. He crams each...
...ITALY As early as 1822, Italian entrepreneur Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the central apartments of the crumbling Venetian Palazzo Dandolo, the 14th century Doge's palace just off the Piazza San Marco. He restored and opened them to the public as the Hotel Royal, eventually acquiring the entire palace, which still welcomes guests today as the glittering Hotel Danieli. Many suites feature 18th century furniture and ceiling paintings; period artworks, some from the Caravaggio school, adorn the walls, and the d?cor?pink marble floors, gold-leaf columns and Murano glass chandeliers?are enough to make an old archduke weep. Rates...