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Postcard from Italy: Lake Como
http://www.blogdolcevita.com/ post/ 791/ postcard-from-italy-lake-comoOne arm of Lake Como turns off to the south between two unbroken chains of mountains, which cut it up into a series of bays and inlets as the hills advance into the water and retreat again. Thus begins Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, one of the most important novels in Italian Literature; actually the book is mandatory reading for all students here in Italy.
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Valdes’ injury scare
http://footballitaliano.org/ ?p=1138Atalanta powered past Serie D side Merate this afternoon but an injury to Jaime Valdes has the Orobici sweating. The Bergamo boys had little troubled in cruising past Merate 6-1 with Simone Padoin the star of the show as he bagged a brace.
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Leaving Them Speechless
http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 07/ leaving-them-speechless.htmlWhen Piero Manzoni saw Yves Klein’s all-blue paintings in 1957, the direction of his own art changed forever—in the opposite direction. Born July 13, 1933, Manzoni decided to poke fun at not only Klein’s art but the whole conceptual art world.
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BCE execs decamp for Google, Talisman Energy
http://www.thedeal.com/ corporatedealmaker/ 2008/ 06/ talismans_money_guru.phpWith the record $53 billion buyout of Canadian telecom BCE Inc. apparently going forward, the company has announced that two of its top execs are leaving for jobs with other companies. Patrick...
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BCE execs decamp for Google, Talisman Energy
http://www.thedeal.com/ corporatedealmaker/ 2008/ 06/ talismans_money_guru.phpWith the record $53 billion buyout of Canadian telecom BCE Inc. apparently going forward, the company has announced that two of its top execs are leaving for jobs with other companies. Patrick Pinchette, BCE's president for operations, will become Google Inc.'s chief financial officer and SVP, starting in August.
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Monday Morning Artistic Merit
http://www.comstockfilms.com/ blog/ tony/ 2008/ 06/ 16/ monday-morning-artistic-…Monday Morning Artistic Merit June 16th, 2008 Artist’s Shit, aka Shit in a Can Posted in Censorship, artist merit, piero Manzoni, what is art
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Talisman shares surge following CNOOC report
http://todaysharemarkettips.in/ talisman-shares-surge-following-cnooc-report/Talisman Energy Inc (TLM.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) shares jumped 6 percent on Monday after a Hong Kong newspaper reported CNOOC Ltd (0883.HK: Quote, Profile, Research), China’s No. 3 oil company, was in talks to buy the Canadian firm or some of its assets.
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The Comeback of Men?s Hats
http://redcarpetvictim.com/ accessories/ comeback-mens-hats-001045/Johnny Depp Let’s blame Johnny Depp, but hats are all the rage for men in 2008. Johnny looks fabulous in a hat and so do a lot of men, as long as they’re not baseball caps. Taking advantage of that hat trend is Italian milliner, Roberto Manzoni Ravenna a well known leader in design and style.
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Money? Art? Blogs?
http://www.12thpress.com/ blog/ ?p=194Piero Manzoni’s ‘Can Of Artist’s Shit.’ I personally witnessed one of these go for $85,000 at Christie’s last year. This got published about a week ago in the Guardian. It’s an article that asks, “Is art criticism dead?” I was going to write a long post about it, but I got sidetracked by work, so I’m just going to link it.
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