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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] An interesting "Memo" ("half n' half" reporting/opinion) appears in The Times today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/world/europe/italians-embrace-a-hero-after-cruise-ship-accident.html Brief passage: [i][list] [*]ROME — In Gregorio Maria De Falco, the until recently unknown head of operations at the Port Authority in the Tuscan coastal city of Livorno, Italy found itself not just a national hero, but the anointed foil to Capt. Francesco Schettino, the reckless and apparently cowardly captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia. Easily adapting to the national propensity for dualism, Italians have got themselves a hero to play against their antihero, a champion to their villain, as Pierluigi Battista wrote in the Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera on Thursday. Captain De Falco’s reprimand to Captain Schettino, loosely translated into English as “Get back aboard! Damn it,” has already entered the national lexicon, not to mention the front of T-shirts, and (according to Italian news reports) as a cellphone ringtone.[/i] [/list] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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