In Italys Easter Basket by our correspondent in Rome, Judith Harris Italys Easter basket is filled with treasures, but they come with problems, and even the basket is fraying. Underlying the problems is, as this reporter has written repeatedly, the abundance of the Italian cultural heritage. Nowhere is this more visible than at Pompeii, whose years of moral and physical lapses are taken by some outsiders, perhaps erroneously, as a sad metaphor for the country itself. But there are good eggs in that basket too.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:38:49 +0000
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