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Even those who shared Senator Joseph McCarthy’s politics acknowledged his fatal flaw: when thinking about the opposition, he generalized when he should have distinguished. He failed to see the difference between an ordinary American of the Left and a Soviet spy. Dina Nerozzi is no Joe McCarthy. She is a distinguished physician who teaches psychoneuroendocrinology and has published such works, read by us all, as Hypothalamic Dysfunctions in Neuropsychiatric Disorders. She is also the author, three years ago, of the brilliant and moving novelized account of her husband’s long imprisonment during the darkest days of Mani pulite, a shattering experience that led her to become one of Italy’s most prominent crusaders against judicial injustice.
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An Italian-American worker who fought the mob that you never heard of.
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Teddy Roosevelt's progressive ideas are back in vogue--drawing comparisons to both John McCain and Barack Obama. So among the two, who's more of a Teddy?
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After 6 years an Italian court rules the government must pay 100,000 euros in damages to a gay man who was told to retake a driving test because he suffered from "sexual identity disturbance."
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Few are more miserable these days than the Roma, or Gypsies, in Italy, whose camps are being bulldozed, whose shacks are being firebombed, and whose children now risk being fingerprinted.
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Last week actress Anne Hathaway's ex, Italian financier Raffaello Follieri, was arrested. Follieri's business dealings had been under scrutiny for over a year, so why did the starlet stick by the bad boy? Love hath no reason...
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It isn't exactly Woodstock all over again, but everyone, from the Prime Minister to nursing mothers to the gay community, is demanding that Italy re-consider its values. It's almost summer and the groups are all screaming for a little more than just ice cream
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An appeals court upheld sixteen life imprisonments of members of the most powerful Mafia crime ring in the Naples area in a high-stakes trial on Thursday. A book, Gomorrah, was the main reason for sparking the interest in the current court case
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John F. Kennedy is the eternal prince charming of American Presidents, but history shows he wasn’t Italy’s favorite. He had his admirers among the Italian people, particularly in the South, but for an immensely popular figure at home, when he visited Italy he didn’t enjoy the wild devotion of past U.S. leaders—his impact on the nation was a subtle one
