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Roberto Saviano used to cruise around Naples on his Vespa for material that would one day fill his book about the criminal underworld. His anonymity provided ample cover as he trolled for tips and frequented murder scenes. "Over time, my face became known," the 28-year-old writes in Gomorra, a riveting account of the Naples Mob. "[But] in territory under surveillance every second ? anything that isn't a hindrance is considered neutral." But with 100,000 copies sold since April, Saviano is no longer considered neutral, and no longer safe. After getting death threats from the local organized crime...
...walk from Hurlbut to the KSG tells only a small part of the story. Back then the Inn at Harvard was a Gulf gas station; the Holyoke Center was Dudley House for commuters; Hillel was squash courts. JFK Street was Boylston Street, with a Mobil station and Vespa dealer. A vast trolley yard stood where the KSG now stands, and Quincy was under construction. Radcliffe and Harvard shared only classes, and few extracurricular groups were co-ed. Two years after Brown v. Board of Education, we were almost entirely white, disproportionately preppies, and insensitive to both the discomfort...
Whether Batali and Bastianich can successfully export their festival of gratification around the country isn't yet clear. The Vegas restaurants will be staffed with experienced talent from their New York restaurants, but Batali won't be able to ride his Vespa scooter to them each night, a quality-control measure he uses in Manhattan. Still, Batali won't run out of culinary ideas any time soon. On his Mac he keeps a database of 20,000 recipes collected over the years on his travels to out-of-the-way Italian towns like the one where he apprenticed...
...elsewhere who are affected by oil exploration, including funding local initiatives to combat malaria and AIDS. Other firms rely on more cynical marketing trends, including the latest-- "buzz marketing," in which people are paid to tell their friends and anyone else they meet how good a product is, from Vespa scooters to Lucky Strike cigarettes. But that doesn't work for governments. Just this month revelations that a group close to the Republican Party has been planting news stories in Iraqi newspapers, and allegedly paid off some prominent imams, caused an uproar in Washington. Simon Anholt, an international consultant based...
...same central Milan building, Stefano on the sixth floor, Domenico on the fifth?never mind the houses in Roquebrune, France, and in Stromboli and Portofino, Italy?Dolce and Gabbana live what they consider an ?approachable? life. Gabbana, 43, still rides around his native Milan on a Vespa (albeit a leopard-print one). And Dolce, 47, who hails from a small town near Palermo, Sicily, still walks to work every day. One even gets the sense that they remain starstruck by the celebrities who wear their clothes?although they readily admit they have Madonna on speed dial...