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  • Op-Eds

    Mr. Monti Takes a Verbal Tumble

    Judith Harris(February 06, 2012)
    Italy’s suave emergency premier Mario Monti has floated on a wave of extraordinary popularity until last week, when a wisecrack he made about the labor market upstaged even the blizzard warnings. With his usual polite smile he remarked affably, “After all, having a posto fisso [guaranteed lifetime job], is boring.”
  • Life & People

    Lo straniero (Part Two)

    Douglas Grant Mine(January 04, 2010)
    Second and final part of an article by Douglas Grant Mine, an American writer, former foreign correspondent and resident of Le Marche. A disenchanted, though loving look at Italy from an American citizen married to an Italian wife and raising three children who consider themselves fully engaged members of both societies.