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...what if the fault doesn't lie with Italians' appetite for news? What if the problem is with what's on the menu? At a literary festival in central Sardinia last month, I had a chance to feel the public's dissatisfaction with what was on offer. During a panel on the media, when I observed that Italian journalists seem to write mostly for each other, for politicians, or for the pleasure of reading their own prose, the audience clapped its approval. For much of the following hour, questioners demanded to know why the news wasn't being written...
...wonder Italians are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information. The last few years have seen the rise of free dailies, handed to commuters outside subway stops. With limited budgets that rule out big-name commentators, they've had to offer their readers something new: straight news. On a recent Thursday, when the front page of La Repubblica offered three articles on Berlusconi's admission that he was "not a saint," the free Metro carried a much more relevant headline: "H1N1: 15 Million Youth To Be Vaccinated." Online, Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned political blogger, has a large, vocal following...
...used Google's number-finder tool to unearth an available number in my area code that ended in T-I-M-E (8463). Even with that mnemonic, I've been having trouble remembering this universal number I'm supposed to be giving out. Google says it plans to offer number portability at some point, so I could pay $10 to make, say, my cell number my universal number...
...argument is airtight. Since Harvard is still the wealthiest university out there, and many other universities undergoing similar budget crises can still afford hot breakfasts, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t offer them...
...When it comes down to it, I am not suggesting that Harvard add another requirement to its already lengthy General Education curriculum. Quite the opposite: I wish that Expos 40 was in such high demand as an elective that the College needed to offer 15 sections. It’s easy to forget that a combination of high intelligence and natural eloquence simply doesn’t equate to public-speaking prowess. And—if we forget—we just might find ourselves center stage with nothing important...