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...director that circumvented the major opposition parties. Rallies sprang up in the form of giant human chains, one encircling the Rome headquarters of rai state television to protest Berlusconi's conflicts of interest as owner of half the country's TV channels - no wonder it was nicknamed the Ring-Around-the-Rosy campaign. A year later, Moretti quietly ceased his public political activities and began Il Caimano. His challenge was to sharpen a story that Italians were watching every day on TV. "A filmmaker should surprise and, if possible, depict a reality that we still can't see," he says...
...general household budget by living as if it were 10 years ago, when fuel was relatively inexpensive and my personal consumption habits were too. I drank my water from the tap back then, not from bottles brought on ships from Iceland, and I let my cell phone ring however it wanted to rather than paying for special tones. Perhaps by returning to older, simpler ways I'll find the extra 11 bucks I need now to fill my tank past the three-quarters point...
...N.O.P.D. is too often blamed as the sole source of the problem. That's naive. But there is no denying the department's atrocious history. In the 1990s, a group of officers was arrested for operating a drug-dealing ring within the department. An N.O.P.D. officer hired a hit man to kill a woman who had reported police brutality. Although the department has improved since then, the transcript of the cop ordering the execution, recorded by an FBI wiretap, is lodged in the collective memory of the city...
...owner of the Harvard Square hair salon About Hair, charged with rape and running a prostitution ring out of his store, appeared in Cambridge District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing in a preface to a trial set to begin this summer. Judge George Sprague set a timeline for the trial at yesterday’s hearing, scheduling the discovery motions—the next date Purdy is due in court—for July 27, according to Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa. Duncan W. Purdy, 52, who is also charged with indecent assault and battery...
...outgrowth of a long standing Boston plan for a public transportation “urban ring” that would enable people to get into the western area of the city without being forced to connect through the Downtown Crossing and Park Street stations. Harvard wants to expand the ring more deeply into Allston than originally envisioned in order to create a “life science necklace” that would link Boston University, MIT, and Harvard...