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    Seeing the Unseeable: The First Image of a Black Hole

    Roberta Cutillo(April 10, 2019)
    The first ever picture of a black hole was revealed today, showing what scientists always believed was unseeable. This breakthrough is the result of the project Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international collaboration, in which Italy’s National Astrophysics Institute (INAF) and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) participated.
  • George Loring Brown, Monte Pellegrino at Palermo, Italy, 1856
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    Palermo: 115 Young Italians From All Over the World to Create a Global Network

    Letizia Airos Soria(April 08, 2019)
    A seminary for the creation of a network of young Italians in the world will take place in Palermo (April 16-19, 2019) and i-Italy is going to be there. An event organized by the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE). We discuss it with the president of the committee “New Migrations and New Generations,” Maria Chiara Prodi.
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    ACCOUNTING TODAY. Why Auditors' Reports are Likely to Get Longer and More Detailed

    Victoria Pellegrino, CPA, Partner and Financial Services Practice Leader at Grassi & Co(April 05, 2019)
    We suggest for companies that do not have an audit committee that consideration be given to forming one. If the ASB adopts the CAM standard then any non-exempted company will need an audit committee; getting its members up-to-speed—taking into account the numerous new audit and accounting standards will take time.
  • Giovanni Colavita
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    Colavita to Bring Quality Italian Wine to the US

    R. C.(April 05, 2019)
    Italian wine meets Italian food in the new partnership between leading Italian food company Colavita and wine industry veteran Nunzio Castaldo for joint ownership of Italian wine importer Panebianco LLC.
  • Bolzano (Image via Lonely Planet)
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    A Ranking of the Best Italian Cities to Live In

    Roberta Cutillo(April 05, 2019)
    What makes “il ben-vivere,” a good life? That’s the question posed by the Milan-based daily “Avvenire” in an attempt to create a ranking of the ideal Italian cities to live in.
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    The Bosses of Finance, The Huge Power that Threatens Us

    Judith Harris(April 03, 2019)
    The latest book by sociologist Pino Arlacchi, Italy's famed Mafia analyst, takes a broader look at crime than do any of his previous works. Born in Calabria in 1951, the former MP and senator was a founder of Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigative Commission and then Undersecretary general of the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention.
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    Dogman Dominates the David di Donatello Italian Film Awards

    Roberta Cutillo(March 28, 2019)
    The 64th edition of the David di Donatello, Italy’s Academy Awards, saw the triumph of Matteo Garrone’s “Dogman”, which took home 9 awards. The Netflix film “Sulla Mia Pelle”, a documentary about Stefano Cucchi, the young roman man who died under custody in 2009, likely as a consequence of police brutality, also fared well, winning 4 prizes including Best Male Actor for Alessandro Borghi.
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    For Steve Bannon "Italy is the Center of the Political Universe"

    Judith Harris(March 26, 2019)
    ROME -- Steve Bannon, mastermind behind the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016, is hunkered down this week in Rome, the city he calls "the center of the political universe." Bannon, who is an avid admirer of Italy's Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini, head of the increasingly dominant right-wing political party the Lega, has scheduled meetings here with as many as ten leaders of other European populist parties, from Western as well as from Eastern Europe.

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