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Month: December 2017

Good-bye Gunga Din

A new social force to be reckoned with is the South Asian, a term that includes Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi, among others. These folks are relatively new to these shores and show a keen business sense and high regard for education.  Inexorably, they are wending their…
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Author John ManciniPosted on December 30, 2017Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Good-bye Gunga Din

The Agony of Napoli

Forget the newsreel images of elated Neapolitans welcoming American liberators in 1943. That reality lasted perhaps an hour or two  ̶  the people of Naples were cheering through their tears.  Worse was in store for them. My colleague Alfred Cardone and I viewed Naples ’44, a…
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Author John ManciniPosted on December 18, 2017Categories Uncategorized1 Comment on The Agony of Napoli

Jerusalem: What Lies Beneath

Its name means Place of Peace but it has caused endless misery and chaos in the world.  From the time King David wrested it from the indigenous Jebusites, through the religious wars known as the Crusades, to President Trump’s recent recognition of the city…
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Author John ManciniPosted on December 11, 2017December 12, 2017Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Jerusalem: What Lies Beneath

Seventeen Million of Us…So What?

I used to be impressed by the U.S. Census report that 17 million Americans identify as Italian. That would make our “community” one of the largest ethnic groups in the nation. Quoting such a statistic might look good in anti-defamation letters or appeals…
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Author John ManciniPosted on December 4, 2017Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Seventeen Million of Us…So What?
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