Overseas Perspectives 
      by S. Giovanna Giacomazzi 
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  • West should be concerned about Turkey’s troubles
  • A negative reaction to the affirmative action issue
  • Life on an isola doesn’t necessarily have to be isolated
  • New French government wastes no time to take action
  • Carlos or chaos: The Argentinean elections
  • Bosnia: Planting the seeds of global conflict
  • New Business: Tourist snipers in Sarajevo
  • An ocean of protests: International nuclear testing
  • Had the Midwest connection been a Middle Eastern one...
  • Why don’t cookies crumble anymore?
  • Dropping a bomb on Chirac’s plans
  • The fate of the American delegation in Bosnia
  • Shuffling the cards of German political power
  • Year of confessions: U.S.’s McNamara & Argentina’s Balza come clean
  • The arborium of Italian party politics
  • Italian politics: Everything remains the same
  • The illegitimacy of Dini’s government
  • Verdict awakens European interest in O.J. trial
  • Falling of the Italian government: Not just another crisis
  • Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar al-Sadat: Parallel lives
  • Italian advertisers keeping their bottoms up
  • Quebecois aren’t alone in separatist feelings
  • The Polish elections: Walesa and Catholic Church, sore losers
  • Algerian vote says no to terrorism
  • Europe once again dividing in two
  • Christmas in Italy and the thirteenth month
  • Russian elections: more than a prelude
  • The Islamic victory of the Turkish elections
  • Perennial resignations of Italian Premier Dini
  • The press’s role in America’s isolationism
  • Mitterand’s preparation for his place in history
  • Environmental issues often based on false premises
  • Bribery is an everyday affair in Italy
  • Misuse of power in the Italian judicial system
  • War criminals or witnesses?
  • Crisis as an ordinary state of affairs
  • As Europeans watch the American elections
  • Where the boys are: Americans in Tuzla
  • The lexical precocity of Italian Kids
  • The American are back in Giverny
  • Running on Time: Never in Italy
  • Modifying Maastricht
  • President Scalfaro visits President Clinton in Washington
  • The Italian Elections: Finally!
  • The Use and Abuse of Mafia Informers
  • The Italian Elections: A Communist victory
  • An accident that could never have happened in Italy
  • Unlikely similarities in Spanish and Italian elections
  • Chernobyl: Ten Year’s After
  • Land mines: Too cheap or too expensive?
  • The Last of the Nazi trials
  • Limited Yahoos for Natanyahu
  • The Russian run-off: A happier harbinger than the Albanian elections
  • To copy or not to learn: that is the Chinese question
  • New Age Rasputin at Hillary’s court?
  • Waiting for call waiting
  • The Cuban embargo as the mother of invention
  • When God gave Italians the 14th month
  • Sweltering in the heat wave
  • International Terrorism: A growing concern of the Big Eight
  • Airplane Accidents: Waiting for Explanations
  • Korean Unification: An expensive dream
  • When traffic lights require interpretation
  • Germany: Two episodes of intolerance
  • Strike compromises the anti-Saddam coalition
  • La Padania: Mythical Republic of Northern Italy
  • Tightening the belt for Maastricht
  • The Kremlin’s Clinic: A crumbling castle
  • Just when you’re expecting the worse
  • The back end of a status symbol
  • Going to the library: From Paradise to Purgatory
  • Will a real person please answer?
  • Unfriendly airports of the world
  • No missing Europe in Chicago
  • Changing lanes and war zones
  • In pursuit of International Transparency
  • Rumanian president seeks more than "capital of sympathy"
  • Embracing Qadaffi
  • The Eulogy of European Unity
  • Albania:  The counter-current of the Balkans
  • British and French elections:  Is Europe going left?
  • New Italian fiscal policy: the wealth meter
  • What is so almighty about the dollar?
  • If Princess Diana could come back…
  • The Nobel court awards a jester
  • Saddam Hussein and Fausto Bertinotti
  • The Peacemaker:  going after the loose nukes
  • Sexygate and the new amendment
  • U.S. interest in the Kosovo
  • America at center stage in the European press
  • False Equations
  • A questionable question of justice
  • Soccer more than just a game
  • America’s Marco Polo
  • Impeaching the President: This is no cherry tree
  • Maybe it’s time for another Tea Party
  • German elections: Talk about a kitchen cabinet!
  • In pursuit of former dictators
  • PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan: Another international imbroglio
  • In search of a democracy where the people are sovereign
  • Fin de siècle fever of remorse
  • Captured Abdullah Ocalan: The most unwanted wanted man
  • Yeltsin under fire
  • Waiting for Nato
  • NATO deconstructs the sovereign state
  • Manna for Milosevic
  • European elections ruffle the feathers of ruling governments
  •  The Italian Olympic Victory
  • Modern medicine discovers the miracle of maggots
  • Equating East Timor with Kosovo
  • The two faces of the Chinese Revolution
  • Italy according to William Pfaff?  Don't buy it!
  • What Europe can learn from the Spanish elections
  • The Earth Day cry of a Serbian ecologist:  Poisoned body and soul
  • Austria – When democracy is abolished in the name of democracy
  • The revolutionary Mexican elections
  • Putin’s grand entrance at Okinawa
  • Putin sinks his own ship
  • Yugoslavian elections:  Normality or the deluge?
  • What now in Yugoslavia?  Post-election ambiguity
  •   Something is rotten in the state of America (US Elections)
  •   Last nail in the coffin (US Elections)
  •   Delusions of former dictators:  from an interview with Milosevic
  •   War criminals: Quid pro quo?
  •   The disharmony of Bush's foreign policy team
  •   Heated reactions to Bush's cold shoulder to global warming
  •   Bush reverses thirty years of China policy: Reconciliation to rivalry
  •   Bush handling of the China crisis:  Praise prevails in the foreign press
  •   Restoring Democracy to Italy
  •   How could the Italians vote for such a monster?
  •   US European relations:  Convergence or Divergence?
  •   At home with the enemy (September 2001)
  •   War Unites Americans, Divides Italians (November 2001)
  •   No Eulogy for the Euro (December 2001)
  •   Anti-Americanismo Gramsci Style (January 2002)

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