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  • Italy’s suave emergency premier Mario Monti has floated on a wave of extraordinary popularity until last week, when a wisecrack he made about the labor market upstaged even the blizzard warnings. With his usual polite smile he remarked affably, “After all, having a posto fisso [guaranteed lifetime job], is boring.”
  • Life & People
    Douglas Grant Mine(January 04, 2010)
    Second and final part of an article by Douglas Grant Mine, an American writer, former foreign correspondent and resident of Le Marche. A disenchanted, though loving look at Italy from an American citizen married to an Italian wife and raising three children who consider themselves fully engaged members of both societies.