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CNN.COM/EUROPE. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he governs Italy out of a sense of duty and sacrifice, not because he enjoys the job. (Read the article)
ANSA. Pope Benedict XVI has created a new provision which will allow dissident Anglicans to join the Catholic Church while maintaining their traditional liturgy and identity. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italian fundraisers on Tuesday asked George Clooney to donate his wedding tie should he go to the altar with Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis. The Polisportiva di Monte Marenza, a sports club in Lecco which neighbors Clooney's villa on Lake Como, said they wanted to auction the tie to raise money for genetic disease research during Italy's charity Telethon. (Read the article)
ANSA. American authorities no longer have any cause to block the imports of the prized Italian wine Brunello di Montalcino, Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia said here. (Read the article)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 2009, The Italian American TV Magazine "Italics" interviews NY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Joseph Sciame, Chairman of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee. The show, hosted by Anthony J. Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College/CUNY) airs at 10am, 4pm & 10pm, City University Television Cable Channel # 75 (RCN Ch.77).Part One presents an in-depth interview with The Honorable Thomas P. DiNapoli, Comptroller of the State of New York. In his role as Comptroller, Mr. DiNapoli audits one of the largest and most complicated state budgets in the Nation, and oversees the growth and stability of the NY State Employees Retirement and Pension Fund, second only to California's.
Part Two has an interview with Cav. Uff. Joseph Sciame, Chairman of the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Founders of the Culture Month Celebrations. Mr. Sciame discusses the 2009 celebrationąs two co-honorees: Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist, on the 400th Anniversary of his 'refinement' of the Telescope, and NYPD Officer Detective Joseph Petrosino, Founder of the Italian Squad and famed anti-mafia crusader on the 100th observation of his assassination, in Palermo, Sicily.
Anthony Julian Tamburri, conducts both interviews.
The New York Times. On Tuesday in Little Italy, Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park was reopened after a one-and-a-half-year, $2 million renovation project. The park, which until 1987 was called Kenmare Square, was rededicated to Lieutenant Petrosino’s memory. (Read the article by Andrew Keh)
Washington Post. Italian American crooner Al Martino, who had string of international pop-chart hits in the 1950s and 1960s including "Spanish Eyes" and "Here in My Heart" and later put his creamy baritone to good use as the fading pop star supposedly based on Frank Sinatra in the 1972 film "The Godfather," died Oct. 13 in the Philadelphia suburb of Springfield. He was 82. No cause of death was reported. (Read the article by T. Rees Shapiro)
ANSA. Work on a bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian mainland will begin between December and January, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday. (Read the article)
ANSA. The following 14 films are up for the Marcus Aurelius best film prize at this year's Rome Film Festival (Read the article)
ANSA. One of the largest exhibitions ever staged on Dadaism and Surrealism has opened its doors in the Italian capital, with over 500 artworks from around the world. The show at the Vittoriano, providing a comprehensive overview of both movements, features oils, sculptures, readymades, collages, drawings and installations by dozens of artists. (Read the article)