Quirky
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Bologna’s Magic Word
While the rest of us tend to think of Italy as a country with a strong national identity, the Italians themselves are far more attached to their regional and local culture and traditions. One Italian city with a particularly strong local identity is Bologna. Its proliferation of nicknames is testimony to this: “Bologna the Fat”…
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Slot Food
It’s neither restaurant nor trattoria, fast food nor snack bar: the north Italian town of Bologna is about to experience a novel kind of eatery. They’re calling it Slotfood – the new way of dining being launched in the Italian food capital this week. Traditional dishes made by professional restaurant chefs dispensed in plastic containers…
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Acting Lawyers
We often think of criminal lawyers as a sort of self-assured, silver-tongued elite, skilled in the arts of rhetoric and persuasion. Like the dashing figures of Hollywood movies, bestselling legal thrillers and classic TV dramas, they can convince even the most hostile judge and jury and, with a tear-jerking climax, get their defendant that “not…