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...year reign of terror. Four were acquitted, due to lack of evidence. The court reconvenes this week for sentencing. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Basta! In a protest against "trash TV" - the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime-time schedule - a Milan viewers' association launched a three-day nationwide television strike. To encourage Italians to get up off their sofas, venues including museums, theaters and restaurants offered a discount to anyone turning up with a TV remote control. Organizers were hoping that up to 400,000 people would participate, but conceded that...
...need for immigrants with a willingness to integrate them into society. Across Europe, the political momentum is with those who want immigration stopped, period. Umberto Bossi, leader of the far-right Northern League, which is part of Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, said earlier this month that housing in Milan should go to native Italians "and not to the first 'bingo bongo' who comes along." In Rotterdam, the party started by slain anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn now controls the municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks...
...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...Milan already has a healthy surfeit of cachet, so the opening of the Park Hyatt, just steps away from the Piazza del Duomo, will probably raise few eyebrows among the well-heeled residents of Italy's fashion capital. Everyone else, though, will be pleasantly gob-smacked by this superspiffy 117-room property...
...palatial, late 19th century building, Milan's latest hotel was designed by Ed Tuttle of Amanresorts fame. Visitors will pass through a lobby covered by a 9-m-high glass dome-enabling natural daylight to flood inside-before encountering an environment with enough untrammeled opulence to embarrass a Saudi prince. Travertine stone has been lavishly used throughout the building, underscoring a design palette of soaring columns, heavy silk, walnut-backed banquettes and granite urns...