Silvio Berlusconi: Battered, bruised, aging, under siege, and still kicking. When I tell my fellow university students I’m Italian, I almost always get two questions: “Can you teach me how to cook pasta properly?” and “How come you Italians still vote for Berlusconi?” I’ll try to answer the second question here, though it’s far from […]
Italo-Moroccan fans in Milan during the European Championships in 2012. By Sophia Heydebrand As a child I hated traveling. My parents would sit in the front seat of our rental car (a steel trap to me) arguing and pointing in all directions, leaving me in the back seat to dramatically fear we’d be lost forever. […]
Wendy Plump talks to about her controversial memoir of infidelity Plump has experienced life as both the cheater and the cheatee; the scorned wife and the other woman. In 18 years of marriage she conducted four affairs, three early on before she had children. Her husband Bill, in turn, betrayed her with several women. Their […]
Admirers call her a “bimbo”, and she considers her Double D cup breasts the “best investment” she ever made. A reality TV star, hungry for fame in the English-speaking world, meet Nabilla Benattia – the French Kim Kardashian. Who’s Nabilla Benattia? She’s a 20-year-old reality TV star and freelance model. Why has she been in […]
For this week’s My French Career we meet tour guide for Localers, Thomas Butler, 28, from Dublin. He made an impulsive decision to move to the capital three years ago. Anyone can do it, he says, they just need to be prepared. How did you end up living in Paris? Well I came here on […]
As the financial crisis in Europe continues to put pressure on job-seekers, thousands of Greeks, Spaniards and Portuguese are coming to Germany – to escape economic problems in their native countries. In Frankfurt, young Spanish academics apply for jobs at the Spanish language institute Instituto Cervantes. And at an association for Greek academics, founder Gregorius […]
Although I have lost quite a bit of weight I still have a long way to go. So I am back at the gym. Last year I joined a discount Gym in Natomas 8 miles away. This price was good and the facilities was well equipped but there are no showers, which meant if I […]
Otherness homophobic! The outburst of violence that accompanies the current debate on “Marriage for All” leaves many feel it is directed by unconscious passions, or at least, reasons not clearly expressed, although some are well understood by some protesters share sides. War slogans War slogans seems emblematic of the balance of power is emerging as […]
IF NOTHING IN TERMS OF HUMAN FOLLY , never exceed the practice tie his shoes around two supermarket plastic bags in the hope they do not water the days of puddles, approaching a practice could almost compete . In fact, some do not hesitate in times of high humidity, to place their leather shoes on a radiator in the hope that they dry […]
THE CITY ‘OF PINKROMA. Candles instead of neon lights, blueberries instead of the oyster beds in sustainable wood. born Eco-Sex, a new form of sexuality “green” and also the capital following the step. Rome shows to have the right cards to offer places where you can feel in harmony with your partner and with the environment. Among the Roman […]
May 6, 2013
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