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Aug. 2, Justice Being Negotiated
It worries me greatly that — as soon as Berlusconi’s conviction was handed down — his fate has become a subject of political negotiation. Nothing in Italian justice is ever clear. The court rather than taking final responsibility for banning Berlusconi for public life has kicked the can back to Milan for “revision” and recalculation…
Continue readingJuly 30, Waiting for final judgment in Berlusconi fraud case
Waiting for the final judgment in the Berlusconi/Mediaset fraud case.
Continue readingRemembering Giovanni Falcone, twenty-one years after.
Last year for the twentieth anniversary of Giovanni Falcone’s death, an Italian friend of a friend organized a photographic exhibition in memory of the great Sicilian prosecutor murdered in Palermo on May 23, 1992. She asked me to write a short introduction to the catalogue of the exhibition which I happily did. It appears…
Continue readingDalai Lama and Yochanan ben Zakkai
I was talking yesterday to a friend, Everett Gendler, a retired rabbi, a neighbor and a very knowledgeable and thoughtful person. He and his wife, Mary, go each year to Dharamsala, India to work with the Tibetans in exile there on the techniques of strategic non-violence, ways of defending and promoting Tibetan independence that…
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