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- ANSA: Sea: ok assemblea a bilancio e nuovo cda
- ANSA: Sea: ok assemblea a bilancio e nuovo cda
- ANSA: Impregilo: avviata fusione con Salini
- ANSA: Petrolio: in calo a 94,71 dollari
- Financial Times: Fugitive financier Marc Rich dies
- Aljazeera: Obama and Karzai discuss Taliban impasse
- Financial Times: China’s crunch impact to last for months
- Aljazeera: Dozens killed in riots in western China
- Aljazeera: Pakistan judge wounded in bomb attack
- Financial Times: Reding voices concerns over UK snooping
- Aljazeera: UN raises alarm on spread of 'designer drugs'
- Huffington Post: U.S. v. Windsor Ruling: The Best Justice Kennedy Quotes From The Court's DOMA Decision
- Huffington Post: Did JFK Say He Was A Jelly Doughnut?
- Huffington Post: Scalia Slams 'Legalistic Argle-Bargle,' Re-Argues 'Homosexual Sodomy' In Dissenting DOMA Rant
- Huffington Post: DOMA Ruling: Supreme Court Weighs In On Defense Of Marriage Act, Prop 8
- Financial Times: Saudi prince ‘refused’ to pay Gaddafi jet sale fee
| ANSA: Sea: ok assemblea a bilancio e nuovo cda Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:21 AM PDT Tagliati stipendi board del 30%, polemica Gamberale-Bonomi |
| ANSA: Sea: ok assemblea a bilancio e nuovo cda Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:45 AM PDT Tagliati stipendi board del 30%, polemica Gamberale-Bonomi |
| ANSA: Impregilo: avviata fusione con Salini Posted: 24 Jun 2013 01:31 PM PDT Obiettivo gruppo da oltre 7 miliardi nel 2016 |
| ANSA: Petrolio: in calo a 94,71 dollari Posted: 24 Jun 2013 11:12 PM PDT Quotazioni scendono dopo fiammata vigilia. Brent sui 100 dlr |
| Financial Times: Fugitive financier Marc Rich dies Posted: 26 Jun 2013 01:22 AM PDT Marc Rich, who was pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last day as US president in January 2001 after being indicted of tax evasion, dies in Switzerland |
| Aljazeera: Obama and Karzai discuss Taliban impasse Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:42 AM PDT Two leaders discuss ways to move forward planned peace negotiations with Afghan group, but Karzai remains circumspect. |
| Financial Times: China’s crunch impact to last for months Posted: 26 Jun 2013 04:56 AM PDT The promise of a backstop helped restore calm to financial markets but the central bank hints at new rules in the Chinese banking industry |
| Aljazeera: Dozens killed in riots in western China Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:02 AM PDT At least 27 killed in clashes in troubled region of Xinjiang in western China, state media reports. |
| Aljazeera: Pakistan judge wounded in bomb attack Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:05 AM PDT At least seven killed in blast that targeted senior anti-terrorism judge in Karachi. |
| Financial Times: Reding voices concerns over UK snooping Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT EU commissioner requests detailed clarifications about the scope of UK's spying practices, after allegations it has tapped trans-Atlantic cables |
| Aljazeera: UN raises alarm on spread of 'designer drugs' Posted: 26 Jun 2013 07:44 AM PDT Psychoactive drugs providing "legal high" are biggest new threat to public health, UN report says. |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- The federal government's refusal to recognize legal same-sex marriages has imposed a "stigma," enshrined a "separate status" into law and "humiliates" a group of people -- and that is unconstitutional, concluded Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday in their historic decision striking down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Ten years to the day that the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, the court, in a historic 5-4 vote, invalidated the federal ban on marriage equality. With DOMA as the law of the land, married gay and lesbian couples were unable to receive more than 1,000 federal benefits that heterosexual couples were able to receive. Kennedy, along with Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, ruled that DOMA is unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment. Some of the highlights from his ruling: Read More... More on Gay Marriage |
| Huffington Post: Did JFK Say He Was A Jelly Doughnut? Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 AM PDT Legend has it that US president John F. Kennedy made a whopping grammatical gaffe with his iconic declaration "Ich bin ein Berliner" 50 years ago on Wednesday, essentially telling his audience -- and the world -- "I am a jam doughnut". The historical lore was that JFK, in his first faltering words of German, was wrong to use the indefinite article "ein" and should have said "Ich bin Berliner" to declare his solidarity with the embattled Cold War city. Not so, says Anatol Stefanowitsch, a Berlin professor of linguistics. "The sentence 'Ich bin ein Berliner' is grammatically absolutely acceptable," he told AFP ahead of the commemorations for the stirring June 26, 1963 speech. The phrase came up twice in the speech, delivered in Kennedy's broad Boston accent. It was his brainchild and translated into German for him by official interpreters -- JFK had written it out phonetically on notecards so he would be understood. Stefanowitsch notes that while "Berliner" is a German word for a filled pastry, the context of Kennedy's declaration made his sentence abundantly clear to the cheering throngs. "The confusion derives from the fact that (in German), you normally express your belonging to a predefined group in a sentence without an article, such as 'Ich bin Student' or indeed 'Ich bin Berliner'," he said. "The sentence 'Ich bin Berliner' is clear and cannot refer to 'doughnuts' because that is not a predefined group," he explained. Stefanowitsch said the construction with the article "ein" is used when a speaker wants to say that he doesn't literally belong to the group, Berliners in this case, but rather wants to express that he has something in common with them. "That is exactly what Kennedy wanted to do -- he did not want to claim to actually be a resident of the city of Berlin but rather to say that he shared something with the Berliners, namely their love of freedom," Stefanowitsch said. At the end of his 10-minute address, Kennedy uttered the immortal words: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner'." So there would have been no blank stares or giggles from the crowd of 450,000 Germans that summer's day? "Kennedy not only delivered a grammatically correct sentence but rather the only sentence that made sense there," Stefanowitsch said.  Read More... More on Kennedy Family |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 AM PDT WASHINGTON -- A day after siding with four other conservative justices to overturn a portion of a nearly 50 year old civil rights law that maintained broad bipartisan support, Justice Antonin Scalia lashed out at the Supreme Court for intervening in the gay marriage debate. When it came to protections for minority voters, Scalia had no patience for democracy, specifically noting that the court should overturn the law because it is too popular to overturn in Congress. But as far as protections for gay and lesbian couples are concerned, Scalia would prefer the court stay away. The court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday in a 5-4 decision. In a dissent choked with rage, Scalia dismissed the majority's reasoning as "legalistic argle-bargle." Read More... More on Supreme Court |
| Huffington Post: DOMA Ruling: Supreme Court Weighs In On Defense Of Marriage Act, Prop 8 Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:11 AM PDT By MARK SHERMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In a major victory for gay rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a provision of a federal law denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits. Read More... More on Gay Marriage |
| Financial Times: Saudi prince ‘refused’ to pay Gaddafi jet sale fee Posted: 26 Jun 2013 10:36 AM PDT Daad Sharab, who arranged the $120m sale of the Airbus aircraft to the former Libyan leader, claims prince 'simply refused' to pay commission |
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