I had the opportunity today for a brief interview with actor Jeremy Irons after he was named the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s new Goodwill Ambassador. The FAO has its headquarters in Rome. A quick glance at Irons’ biography is mind-boggling. He has starred in dozens of movies (“The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Reversal of Fortune, […]
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Associated Press Television News (APTN) is the little-known television side of the famous AP wire service. The TV side basically does the same thing but with video. While the wires and photos go out to newspapers around the globe, our video edits go out to hundreds of broadcasters all around the world from NHK in
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Come in tante altre lingue, i nomi italiani sono maschili o femminili, e ogni tanto questo mi genera confusione. Forse l’esempio più allarmante è stato quello di un’estate poco dopo il mio matrimonio. Nel bel mezzo della notte, Gustavo ha acceso la luce, ha preso una rivista, l’ha arrotolata ed è sceso dal letto ripetendo:
As with many languages, Italian nouns are either masculine or feminine which occasionally has caused me confusion. Perhaps the most alarming example was one summer shortly after we were married. In the middle of the night, Gustavo snapped on the light, grabbed a magazine, rolled it up, jumped up on the bed and started repeating,
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Fra le cose che più mi piacciono della lingua italiana ci sono i suffissi ‘ino’, ‘one’ e ‘accio’. Aggiungendoli alla fine di una parola, se ne può cambiare la natura. ‘Ino’ rimpicciolisce l’oggetto, ‘one’ lo ingrandisce e ‘accio’ lo peggiora. Perciò una porta può essere grande o piccola – porticina o portone – e una
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One of my favorite aspects of the Italian language are the endings ‘ino’, ‘one’, and ‘accio’. You can change the nature of a word just by adding one of those three endings. ‘Ino’ (pronounced eee-no) makes the subject small, ’one’ (pronounced oh-nay) makes it big, and ‘accio’ (pronounced ah-choh) makes it bad. So a door,
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Amanda Knox è tornata a casa, a Seattle, la APTN ha portato via il pulmino satellitare, ritirato i cavi dall’aula del tribunale, impacchettato i computer. E ora sono di nuovo a Roma. Dopo sei giorni trascorsi a Perugia, finalmente ho un momento per scrivere le mie riflessioni sugli ultimi giorni del processo di appello. Alcuni
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Amanda Knox is now back at home in Seattle, APTN has pulled out its satellite truck, we’ve pulled the cables out of the courtroom, packed up our computers, and now I am back in Rome. After spending six days in Perugia, I finally have a moment to write down some of my reflections on the
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