Italy's history of wartime failure and ongoing sense of global inadequacy make combat deaths unbearable.
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21st century fox
Silvio Berlusconi may be over the top, but someone put him there.
Tu vuò fa l’americano!
Oh great, just what we needed: An American president who's almost… European.
Forbidden foreboding
The L'Aquila quake only lightly jarred Rome, but a message hung heavy.
Mosque-cum-museum
The Italian philosophy of presapocchismo is beginning to creep West.
The end of tolerance
Led by a zealous interior minister, Italy has foreigners in its cross-hairs.
The speech
If an inaugural speech is part insight and part rhetoric, President Barack Obama performed ably.
New man, old story
History was made, yes. But Obama's victory fit a traditional and cyclical political model.
Getting it
When it comes to Afghanistan, post-election America will need a cultural leap from its military.
Voice of America
Photoshop aside, Sarah Palin speaks the unspeakable — the new English language.
Bullies
Surprised that "new age" Russia's on the move? Don't be.
Numeral stew
By winning national elections, Silvio Berlusconi has entered Italy's top-flight Roman numeral league.