Procrastinate away with the second edition of the SAIS BC Blog, featuring analysis of the Italian political landscape, chess challenges, SGA updates, reflections, and photos. If you are interested in submitting, please send your commentary/creativity to jhubconline@gmail.com by Friday afternoon for publication on Monday Italy in Transition by Marco Ferrara Restaurant Review by Suzy [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Midterms are almost over, right?
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Italy in Transition by Marco Ferrara
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
The 12th of the November marked the political demise of the Berlusconi government in Italy, which fell under the combined pressure of bond speculators and pleas from within his party to step down. culminating in a stream of defections that cost him the parliamentary majority in the lower house. Prior to Berlusconi’s resignation, it had [...]
Restaurant Review: Ristorante Il Tinelle by Suzy Xiu
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ristorante Il Tinello Via dei giudei, 1 40126 - Bologna (BO) tel: 051.221569 Food: 4 Service: 5 Ambiance: 4 Location: 5 Price: $$ Last week a few of us went to Ristorante Il Tinello. I have been there a few times under the recommendation of Giuliana, one of the preterm Intensive Italian teachers, who is friends with the [...]
Just Think About It…by Nicollette Maunganidze
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
People seek to learn about the world and how the system works so they can change it or keep it the same (all derivatives included). Which side are you on?
Return to Politics by Francesco Cuomo
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A week ago the former prime minister, mr Silvio Berlusconi, resigned as a consequence of the Italian-German bond spread rise showing the international market’s distrust to his politics. Mr Mario Monti was nominated Prime Minister and few days later he won the confidence vote first at the Senate, then in the House. There are already [...]
Espresso With the SGA: Bennett Gordon and Recycling
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recurrent theme during the SGA campaign speeches was the importance of making the Bologna Center a greener campus. A month and a half later, the BC Blog sat down with Bennett Gordon to talk about what has been done to implement a recycling program. So far, the SGA has spoken with the administration about [...]
Photo Roundup
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Change by Marijn Otte
Posted in Miscellaneous on 27/11/2011 | Leave a Comment »
The past weeks have been stressful in more than one way. Sure midterms and paper deadlines caused a few sleepless nights but mostly the euro crisis has been on mind. A more than healthy chunk of my daily routine is now devoted to bond yields, exchange rates, credit default swaps and any other information I [...]
Chess Quiz Solution by Marijn Otte
Posted in Miscellaneous on 25/11/2011 | 1 Comment »
And the solution is …… First of all, I need to confess something. The position I showed in last week’s post never occurred on the chess board. Ok, that’s not completely true either. The real position (shown below) had the colours reversed, everything else was the same; this was to deter any clever Googlers. Posted [...]
First Edition of the 2012 BC Blog!
Posted in Miscellaneous on 13/11/2011 | 1 Comment »
Ciao Ragazzi, Welcome to the first issue of the 2012 SAIS BC Blog. This week’s inaugural edition features posts by Cameron Thomas Shah: Homecoming Jemila Abdulai: Africa Remixed, A Rise From the Ashes Marijn Otte: Cold War Redux Sarah Gardiner: Veteran’s Day Photos by Frances Cuomo, Shelley Ranii, and Steve Farole
