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...billion. Some of Berlusconi's coalition partners suggested that the sale, which reduced the Prime Minister's share in Mediaset to 34.3% from 50.9%, should mute long-standing accusations that his combination of media and political power constitutes a conflict of interest. Opposition leaders, including former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, were quick to note that the media group remained under Berlusconi's control. (The Berlusconi family retains majority voting rights in Mediaset, even with a minority ownership share, a common arrangement in family-dominated media companies.) The move may have been largely business-motivated; Fabrizio Perretti, a professor at Bocconi...
...more than 80% of Miami Dade's honors students are black or Latino, students in similar programs at other community colleges have been predominantly white females. "We have to be careful that in the scramble for prestige we don't lose our most important focus--open access," says Richard Romano, director of the Institute for Community College Research at SUNY/ Broome Community College in Binghamton, N.Y. But Miami Dade president Eduardo Padrón argues that "it is unfair to restrict community colleges to that traditional role and allow only the four-year colleges or research universities to teach more...
...Romano and Fiddy are, however, in good company when it comes to Harvard students, who seem to have a special fondness for naming websites after themselves. Four such undergrads—all male, but probably only by coincidence—joined FM for an enlightening roundtable discussion over the weekend...
...think of life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...calling that you actually hear in the depths of your being." If Sister Veronica's call had not sounded in 1979, when she was 25, her razor-sharp curiosity might have carried her into a career in journalism. Or perhaps as a spruiker for L'Osservatore Romano. "Are you familiar with that?" she asks. "Oh, it's a great mag. The Holy Father's just put out an encyclical on the Eucharist...