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July 30, Waiting for final judgment in Berlusconi fraud case
Waiting for the final judgment in the Berlusconi/Mediaset fraud case.
Continue readingWho Am I to Judge? Francis Redefines the Papacy, newyorker.com, July 30, 2013
Week by week, during the past several months, we have gotten a better idea of what the papacy of Pope Francis looks and sounds like. From the beginning he has set a new tone, one of informality, openness, humility, and approachability. He has begun to redefine the papacy, replacing the traditional figure of the Pope—a…
Continue readingWhy do Italians forgive Berlusconi? Nyer.com June 26, 2013
Americans learning that Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted of exploiting a teen-age prostitute and sentenced to seven years in prison might say, “Well, that’s the end of him.”
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…
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