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Calabresi, who left Milan with his parents when he was seven, earned two degrees in economics but decided that the field was "just a game." What he finds "interesting about law is that it deals in concrete terms with fundamental value conflicts." Bringing that philosophical approach even to his estates and gift-tax course, Calabresi is specially fond of his first-year class in torts. Says he: "I love teaching, and there is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these...
...show proof of their alleged democratic spirit," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.) On the other hand, going too far in condemning Moscow and other Communist capitals could make them seem traitors to the Communist cause. Early this month, Italian Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer, addressing 3,000 workers in Milan, stressed "our criticism of certain 'authoritarian features' in the political regimes of some countries in Eastern Europe...
Still, only a small proportion of the illegal capital outflow is being transported by Mercedes and motor scooter. Until new antismuggling laws were passed last April, lire in cash or checks could be transferred to some Swiss or Liechtenstein banks via clandestine exchange channels in Rome and Milan. Huge sums have also been sent abroad by the device of under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood...
Japanese honor may be partially satisfied, but some Italians see the affair as an assault on their traditional humanism. Writing in Milan's Corriere della Sera, Essayist Luigi Compagnone jestingly defended the Cat and the Fox as "two small-time cheats, emeritus champions of the art of getting by," a talent that he says is attributed to the people of southern Italy. Japan, he added, is "a superindustrialized country, where the myths of superproduction have inserted themselves in the daily reality to the point of spasm. It does not know or accept anything but the frightening morality of integral efficiency...
Waiting for the compliance report of the Boston Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is like waiting for the Rome-to-Milan train in pre-Mussolini Italy--it never comes...