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...together," says this official, "we may find ourselves back at the drawing board before long." Gianni Vernetti, an Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, praises ISAF as "efficient multilateralism. We have a strong U.N. mandate, and, for us, Afghanistan is a long-term commitment," he says. Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left government struggled to keep its majority intact during parliamentary votes in July over whether to reaffirm its existing troop commitments to Afghanistan, but that pledge appears unshaken by Rome's subsequent decision to send a sizable force to Lebanon. Birgit Homburger, deputy head of Germany's Free...
...politicians and headline writers across the Continent. Furious discussions about whether to limit, amend or suppress inheritance taxes broke out last week in both Britain and France. In Italy, meanwhile, there's controversy and skepticism about plans by the new government[an error occurred while processing this directive] of Romano Prodi to reinstate the inheritance tax abolished by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in one of his first acts on taking office in 2001. The debate is erupting now because death duties of up to 40%, once paid only by the affluent, are starting to affect a growing number...
...Rome-often derided in French military circles as providing "Club Med" troops-why wouldn't they be for Paris? After all, France is on the Security Council, helped write 1701, and considers Lebanon a vital area of foreign policy. Taking scoldings from George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was bad enough. But even the Socialist opposition was making hay of France's reluctance, with Secretary-General Francois Hollande telling Le Monde that France " appears to be a spectator...
Galán promises that NBC's telenovela will look and feel as polished as anything else in prime time, but telenovela producers will be spending only an estimated $100,000 to $500,000 an episode. They won't have to pay for superstar salaries (comedian Ray Romano took home $2 million an episode), expensive writers ("adapters" are paid as little as $50,000 a year) or elaborate shoots. Twentieth Television has plotted out the story arcs for both of its shows and will shoot them jointly to create more efficiency, Cook says. By just changing the lighting, for example, producers...
...tried to steer debate away from the Mafia. "Borsellino is an upstanding person," he says. "But she's there because she's a symbol, and Sicilians won't vote for someone who is just a symbol." In last month's national elections, won narrowly by the center-left's Romano Prodi, Sicily sided with the center-right. Last week, the final polls allowed to be published before the regional showdown showed Cuffaro with a five-point advantage. Orazio Marra, a Palermo taxi driver, will vote for the incumbent, opting for his political experience and reserving judgment on the Mafia ties...