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According to Boston Magazine writeup, "Anderson's rugged good looks have led Hard executive Bob Del Pozzo to state. 'Michael will skyrocker'."
Stretching for 11 1/2 miles beneath central Italy's rugged Apennine mountains, it is one of Europe's longest railway tunnels and carries the nickname La Direttissima because it provides the most direct route between Florence and Bologna. Last week the Italian press renamed it the "Tunnel of Death."
So why the pretense-why the evident pleasure-in seeing the country as a collection of loners? It may just be a game, a casually preferred national image requiring no analysis, like English gentlemen or Latin lovers. It may be a holdover from the country's beginnings. Any institution...
Or it may be part of an effort to keep life simple, especially when simplicity swims increasingly out of reach. The simple life, too is a basic American myth, but it was a lot closer to being realized before the age of genetic finagling, test-tube babies and nuclear arms...
The fact is that the country has consistently shown its best face and best strength when it has defined rugged individuals as those people rugged enough to come to the aid of their fellows, and intelligent enough to recognize when they need such aid in return. Could there be some...