Nov 8th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
Italian Archaeologists are enraged at Saturday's collapse of the House of Gladiators in Pompeii. The 40 ft. wide structure had recently undergone reconstruction work on its roof, which might have contributed to its total collapse during heavy rains early on Saturday morning. An even greater culprit may turn out to be the Italian Arts Ministry. The ministry's secretary general, Roberto Cecchi, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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House of Gladiators in Pompeii collapses
Nov 8th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
Italian Archaeologists are enraged at Saturday's collapse of the House of Gladiators in Pompeii. The 40 ft. wide structure had recently undergone reconstruction work on its roof, which might have contributed to its total collapse during heavy rains early on Saturday morning. An even greater culprit may turn out to be the Italian Arts Ministry. The ministry's secretary general, Roberto Cecchi, ...Statue used to strike Berlusconi now a popular souvenir in Italy
Dec 19th, 2009 at 11:00AM: An incident in which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was injured by a man wielding a statue has proven profitable for souvenir sellers in Italy.
According to Yahoo News, vendors say they've noticed a sharp uptick in sales of the Duomo statue, the same one a mentally disturbed man used to bloody Berlusconi's face while he was signing authographs in Milan a week ago. Berlusconi suffered ...Unsurprising news of the day: Berlusconi in yet another scandal
Jul 26th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been taking a lot of flack lately, what with allegations of corruption and dictatorial leanings, his divorce, and his penchant for hiring attractive women for important positions. Now he's got to deal with charges that he's covering up archaeological remains on one of his many properties.
The accusations stem from secret tapes made by call girl ...Tour the world's vandalism
Feb 9th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Eyesore or art, graffiti is part of any culture's public dialogue. Vandalism is visual profanity, and we all swear in our own f---ing ways. I've been drawn to these wall scrawls for a while, probably since I read Holden Caulfield's concerns about the subject in Catcher in the Rye. My fascination gained momentum while I was stationed in South Korea. A soldiers' bar in Tong Du Chon (the Peace Club, ...Alitalia deal dumped by Air France-KLM
Apr 4th, 2008 at 1:00PM: For a while there, it almost looked like Air France-KLM was actually going to buy Alitalia and dig them out of their ongoing financial problems. Alitalia has been losing $1.6 million a day for more than a year. Grant wrote about the KLM-Alitalia deal just a few weeks ago.
Unfortunately, Air France-KLM ended their negotiations with Aitalia after Alitalia's unions balked, The Wall Street Journal ...
