I don’t know if this happens to any of you dear Blog Readers, but I am finding that my personality is suddenly being possessed by my profession. Or perhaps my personality has always been what it is and led me into a profession that requires those personality traits. Let me clarify– I am home in […]
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Dear Blog Readers — Back in May I did a blog post on Italy’s first black Minister, Cecile Kyenge, “Call Me Black”. Sadly she’s only been at her new job for a few months and she has been bombarded with racial slurs and even death threats. One insult came this past week from the Deputy
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Dear Blog Readers — Today my post is dedicated to a review of a book written by a new friend of mine, Lynn Rodolico, followed by a chat with the author. Lynn Rodolico’s “Small Change” is a tender and eloquent story of a Swedish-American couple who adopt twin babies found in a dumpster. The book tackles
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Dear Blog-readers — Pope Francis has just left Lampedusa and it has been a goose-bump experience. What you see above is a freeze frame of video I shot, yes me, running in front of the Pope’s car with his security guys shoving me aside. But let me take a step back and tell you all
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Dear Blog Readers– Today I am flying to the tiny island of Lampedusa off the coast of Sicily, to cover Pope Francis’s first trip. Lampedusa is a treeless, strip of an island, 9 kilometers (4 miles) long in the middle of the Mediterranean, closer to the African mainland than to Italy. Every year thousands of
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Cocktail season has arrived in Rome…. a series of swanky events at elegant Roman Villas owned by foreign embassies. The biggest one that attracts the crème de la crème of Rome is the US Embassy Fourth of July party in the extensive gardens of the splendid Villa Taverna, home to the US Ambassador. There you
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He twirls, he slides, he jumps, he kicks and twists and turns on the cobblestones of the Eternal City…it is Michael Jackson in Rome. Twenty-nine year old Italian Emiliano Fiacchi is a Michael Jackson imitator who draws crowds by twisting and twirling to “Bad” , “Billy Jean” and “Beat it”. Fiacchi has been a devoted fan of Michael Jackson since a classmate
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Former Italian Prime Minister was sentenced today to seven years in prison for paying for sex with an underage prostitute and using his position to cover it up. My AP colleagues and I have been covering this all day and right now I am sitting outside Berlusconi’s Villa near Milan where all the Bunga-Bunga parties
Berlusconi Gets A Seven Year Sentence! Read More »