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THE BOSTON CHANNEL. Boston’s first Italian American police officer to be killed in the line of duty was honored Saturday in the North End. (Read the article)
FORBES. Former Washington Gov. Albert Rosellini, a son of Italian immigrants who became the oldest living former governor in America, died Monday. He was 101. (Read the article)
BBC. Mr Saviano, 32, has lived under constant police protection since death threats were issued against him by the mafia in 2006.
He is sharing the prize with British playwright Sir David Hare.
The Pen/Pinter Prize was established by the writers' charity Pen in 2009 in memory of British playwright Harold Pinter. (Read the article)
SLATE. Beppe Severgnini is a columnist for Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper, a contributor to Time, the Financial Times, and the Economist. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, Mamma Mia!, Severgnini tackles the big question that foreigners have about Italy: Why do Italians tolerate Silvio Berlusconi? (Read the article)
NJ.COM. Natcore Technology, a solar startup in Red Bank, plans to announce today it is forming a partnership with the largest solar manufacturer in Italy. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italian divers on Friday located in the waters off Genoa the wreck of a luxury British transatlantic liner sunk by a German submarine during the First World War when it was being used by the Royal Navy as a troop ship. (Read the article)
THE ART NEWSPAPER. If the Venice Biennale art exhibition now runs like a normal international event, with adequate toilets, refreshment points, marketing, press facilities and ticketing, and also manages to cover nearly 80% of its costs, it is almost entirely due to former banker Paolo Baratta, 72, chairman of the Biennale Foundation from 1998 to 2000, and from 2007 to yesterday. (Read the article)
TIMELIVE. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has admitted that he is finding it increasingly hard to explain Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sexist remarks to his colleagues abroad. "I have difficulty explaining (it) to an English or French colleague," Frattini said in an interview on Friday with state broadcaster RAI's Radioanch'io programme. (Read the article)
DETROIT FREE PRESS. In honor of Christopher Columbus, the Michigan Columbus Day committee will kick off a two-day celebration today of the man both revered for his voyages to America and criticized for his impact on native cultures. A 42-unit parade featuring a fleet of Italian Fiat cars, the Harper Woods High School marching band and Italian-themed floats starts at 11 a.m. today at the Clinton Township Senior Center. It will be followed by a free afterglow in the afternoon and a banquet in Warren on Sunday. (Read the article)
AFP. Italy's Arte Povera modern art movement is the subject of a new retrospective at the MAXXI museum in Rome, featuring works by Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio. (Read the article)