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...ROME: TOTAL WAR Build the world's greatest empire, and heap glory on your family, battle by epic battle...
...million. The two banks are leading a counterattack against Bondi in bankruptcy court, arguing that there is no legitimate reason why their claims as creditors should be cut out. Even the U.S. government has jumped in. Scott Kilner, minister counselor for economic affairs at the U.S. embassy in Rome, says his office has been following the Parmalat scandal closely. "We want to be sure that in this case, like in others, U.S. companies are receiving fair and equal treatment," he said. As for Parmalat's own management, while many executives have acknowledged to magistrates that they played a role...
...fertility rates in Italy and Spain, also 1.29, spring from high youth unemployment, the prevalence of short-term work contracts, a chronic shortage of affordable housing for young people - and a bias in the workplace against women who interrupt their careers to have kids. Barbara Cavuto, 35, a Rome manager at an employment services company who's eight months pregnant with her first child, says combining family and career still doesn't seem like a realistic possibility for Italian women. "Turning 35 is just about the limit beyond which it becomes more difficult to have and raise children," she says...
...doesn't look like the cutting edge of social protest: each morning, Sabina and Edoardo Mazzetti make a stand of sorts by getting their nine children - who range in age from 3 to 24 - up and out of a rented four-bedroom, two-bathroom flat in downtown Rome. Mazzetti, 50, says it has all gotten easier over the years: "The older kids help with the younger ones. And my wife has organized the morning into shifts. But everyone's always still in a hurry." A devout Catholic who's employed by a firm that monitors workplace health and safety measures...
MUSIC | Venice vs. Rome...