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“Pane e pregiudizio”. Le battaglie dell'ANFE, Maria Federici e Giovanna Taviani

Vincenzo Corona

Un documentario racconta la storia dell'ANFE che celebra il suo 65mo anniversario. La fondatrice, Anna Federici vista dalla regista Giovanna Taviani

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Storm adds to chaos at troubled Italy steel plant

A violent storm hit the troubled ILVA steel plant in southern Italy, injuring dozens and adding to disruption at the huge site, which is already caught in a widening pollution scandal that could cost billions.  
Source: Reuters
November 28, 2012

Honesty Italian Style

Dom Serafini

For the Italian caste an honest politician is someone who received only a two-year sentence.

November 28, 2012

Folklore of Sicilian Peasant Culture – Perniciously ignored in Italian (Italy Ends at the Garigliano) Studies Programs

Tom Verso

The success of the Gramsci-esque “Cultural Hegemonic” dominance of Northern Italian culture over the South is brilliantly documented in Pino Aprile’s “Terroni”. Cultural dominance is achieved first, by foisting the dominant cultural onto the dominated through the education, government and media systems. Second, obliterating the dominated culture by completely ignoring the manifestations of its existences. That same process of Northern Italian dominance extends to the southern-Italian American cultural through various American universities’ “Italian (i.e.

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Colosseum to be surrounded by security zone

Lazio Regional Director for Cultural Heritage Federica Galloni said on Tuesday that an impassible security zone will be erected around Rome's iconic Colosseum to protect both the monument and passers-by. Last September, pieces fell off the monument due to weather extremes and the need for more regular maintenance.

Source: ANSA
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Italy wins battle over EU job announcements

 Italy on Tuesday won its legal battle against the publication job announcements in just three languages, English, French and German, in the European Union's Official Journal.
Source: ANSA
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Japanese Museum Returns a Possible Leonardo to Italy

By Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME – More than 70 years after an oil painting depicting a panel of Leonardo da Vinci’s celebrated “Battle of Anghiari” was spirited away from Italy to enter into a succession of private collections, the work – tantalizingly attributed by some to the master himself – is going on display at Italy’s presidential palace until mid-January.
Source: The New York Times
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Creating Golden Opportunities Amid Austerity

By Nazanin Lankarani
MILAN — The Damiani boutique occupies a prime corner here on Via Monte Napoleone, an obligatory halt for elegant shoppers strolling along the chic avenue, oblivious to the clouds of austerity hanging above.
Source: The new York Times
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Italy approvals bill recognizing 'natural' children

(ANSA) - Rome, November 27 - Italy is giving the same rights to children born outside of wedlock to those born to married parents.
Source: ansa

The Gift of a Smile: Pizza Class at Mount Sinai Medical Center

Natasha Lardera

Although known to be a hospital for rich people, Mount Sinai treats every day little patients whose family cannot even afford to give them a meal. Doctor Angela Cioffi and restaurateur Michele Luzzo organized a pizza class in the Oncology Department to teach them something new, make them eat a healthy Italian specialty and give them the chance to smile.

“Inter Campus” @ the United Nations

A. G.

Back in 1997 Inter FC (Italian soccer club) started a project to help children in need in more than twenty countries. The project, founded by the President of Inter FC Massimo Moratti and now directed by his daughter Carlotta, counts twenty-four countries and over 200 local instructors who keep helping over 10,000 children all around the world, from China to Argentina through Cameroon and Angola.
A creation of a new campus will be presented at the United Nations on November 28th

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On West 69th Street, a Toscanini Connection

By Peter Khoury
Music surrounds my Upper West Side apartment. Singers and a pianist live one floor above mine. It’s just a short walk to Lincoln Center. Even the local pizza parlors have names like Traviata and Rigoletto.
Source: The New York Times
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