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...Germain, one of the world's most elegant shopping streets, enjoy the Marais' narrow streets and renovated mansions, much in vogue now among the Parisian in crowd. In the Rue des Rosiers, sample some of the capital's best Jewish food. Cost: $1.70. Journey time: about 30 min. Rome: Take Linea 3 (normally a tram route but partially serviced by a bus until the fall) from Trastevere for a tour of ancient Rome and neighborhoods ranging from Testaccio, featuring some of the capital's hottest restaurants, to the wealthy oleander-treelined neighborhood of Parioli near the Villa Borghese Park...
...Fast-forward to Rome at around 2:30 a.m. With the center-left coalition clinging to a lead of 0.01 percentage point in the race for the Lower House of Parliament, Prodi, 66, suddenly appeared on stage before a jubilant celebration. Hugs were shared, champagne was popped, victory was declared...
...drawings, taken from the museum's own collection and others in Oxford and the Netherlands, are displayed chronologically, next to small reproductions of the relevant finished works. Visitors can follow the artist's career as he followed the money, oscillating between patrons (the Medici family, Popes) in Florence and Rome. It's the first time the drawings have been seen together since the breakup of Michelangelo's studio in 1564, the year of his death at 88. Perhaps his most famous work, the vast Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco commissioned by Pope Julius II, was painted between...
...working as a system administrator for the state-owned Sberbank. They pay him $145 a month. He has no contract, no nothing. This is standard practice in Russia. So the French students' problems do not really apply here. Marianna Lorusso 28, producer for a youth-targeted satellite TV station, Rome I'd be willing to accept that it might take three or five years to find a secure job, but by all accounts I shouldn't expect it for at least 20 years. It's pretty depressing. It means there are certain things you can't count on, and other...
...JEFF ISRAELY, Rome bureau chief, TIME: I'd begin with some culture. The Scuderie museum on the Quirinale hill accepts visitors until 7 p.m. Sun.-Thurs. and 9:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., and has good modern-art exhibits and arguably the best view of the city from its exiting stairway. With an appetite revved for Roman food, get a steaming plate of bucatini all'amatriciana, a classic pasta with bacon, at Matricianella on Campo Marzio. Plop down afterward in Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina for a relaxed nightcap, or stroll over to the Spanish Steps, pictured, for a bit more...