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THE NEW YORK TIMES. Had heard Spadaro was a small restaurant (and with only 38 seats, it is), so when we got stuck in traffic and were late for a Saturday reservation, I called with some trepidation.Don’t worry about it, my love,” said Rina Spadaro... (Read the article)
GUARDIAN. alian authorities took into custody on Saturday a top boss from the Gambino Mafia clan who was deported from the United States after spending more than two decades in jail for drug trafficking. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Four new cases of influenza A/H1N1 have been reported. All four are students at secondary schools in Rome. The junior health minister, Ferruccio Fazio, ordered the immediate closure of the two schools for a week as a precautionary measure. The cases, which were confirmed on Thursday, involve students from the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II and the Dante Alighieri secondary school. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Rumours had been going round Milan for the past couple of weeks and concern was mounting. “Giorgio Armani is ill”. Inferences, hypotheses and suppositions abounded. But yesterday, the fashion designer laid the conjectures to rest, confirming some and denying others. Giorgio Armani had hepatitis due to intoxication but he is better now. (Read the article)
FOX NEWS. Producer Herman Chanowitz finds himself in the Eternal City, also known as Rome, in November of 2008. He recounts us the experiences he had there while filming a new episode of his series "War Stories with Oliver North". The episode was about Benito Mussolini's rise and fall and Italy's involvement in World War II. Also, how the Allied Forces battled back the Germans in some of the most brutal fighting of the war. "It was my first time in this historic country and I was thrilled that I could be there to help tell the stories of such brave and heroic men" (Read the article by Kelly Guernica)
THE INDIPENDENT. Supergrass says politicians negotiated with gangs even as judges were bombed. Giovanni Brusca, the man who killed the first of those judges, Giovanni Falcone, by detonating a huge bomb under the Palermo airport motorway, told a heavily-guarded "bunker court" inside Rome's Rebbibia jail that the Italian authorities were secretly trying to cut a deal with Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the capo di capi of Cosa Nostra at the time and the architect of the atrocities. (Read the article)
ANSA. One of Italy's most notorious eyesores, a huge unfinished hotel complex on a Ligurian island, disappeared Friday after decades of campaigning by environmentalists. Some 50 kg of dynamite was used to bring down the seven-floor building, known as the Scheletrone ('big skeleton'), overlooking a beach on the island of Palmaria, which forms part of the region's Cinque Terre UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Read the article)
ANSA. A 'lost' painting by Italian Futurist star Mario Sironi has turned up at an auction in Prato where its opening bid has been set at 200,000-250,000 euros. (Read the article)
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. Prince Emmanuel Filiberto of Savoy hopes his recent win in Italy's 'Dancing With the Stars' will ignite a political career in his homeland. His family was not even allowed to set foot on Italian soil until 2003. But one of Italy's formerly exiled royals hopes that an unlikely win on a reality TV show will catapult him toward a political career and restore the honor of his once illustrious family. (Read the article)
ANSA. Snaps of Italian American filmstars and politicians captured by America's first and most mischievous paparazzi Ron Galella are drawing big crowds to the southern Italian city of Matera. (Read the article)