When setting up an online store, it can be difficult to find suppliers of good quality products at reasonable prices. At first, consider several different suppliers and a fairly wide range of items. Then, by a process of trial and error, find out which are the best and most reliable sources of goods that can […]
“My, What Big Teeth You Have, Italy.”
The story of “Little Red Riding Hood” originated as a European fairy tale written by the French author Charles Perrault, and was later modified by The Brothers Grimm, among others. In reality, the story is more than a little dark and disturbing, and was unabashedly created as a cautionary tale of the consequences awaiting those […]
Knox and Sollecito: Dissection of a conviction
Introduction I am personally a firm supporter of Knox and Sollecito’s innocence, it should be known by now, but however I state it here again for all the readers who may be new to the case. I am also Italian-born and have always lived in Italy except for short periods abroad, so when I write […]
Exonerations Appear to Undermine Hague Tribunal
Two recent appeals hearings ended with senior figures from Serbia and Croatia being fully exonerated. Worryingly, their acquittals were hailed at home as vindication of their respective sides’ wartime actions. By Rachel Irwin When appeals judges at the Hague tribunal quashed the conviction of Momcilo Perisic for crimes committed during the 1990s war in […]
Unarresting the Arrested:FBI Profiler John Douglas on Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito
This article was originally supposed to be published for Il Messaggero. It was given to me as an assignment, after the editor and legal expert of the newspaper saw the Maxim interview with famed FBI profiler, John Douglas, in the January 2011 issue. When the article was turned in, albeit shortened, my editor told me […]
One Easy Way To Protect Your Money
Our economy and our money have reached a turning point. The only sure way to survive unscathed is to seek shelter. When I wrote about the economic disaster, I cited the government’s own numbers to support the case we are already in a depression worse than the great one. I don’t write that to scare anyone. My single […]