One of Italy’s more creative correspondents and writers, Tommaso Debenedetti has published interviews with: Cardinal Ratzinger, just prior to his election to the papacy; Mikhail Gorbachev; Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu; and Elie Wiesel. He published interviews with well-know authors such as John Grisham and Philip Roth. His insightful interviews were the result of his access […]

Recently two new stories that under normal circumstances would have been ignored by the media became prime time news and the subject of many radio talk shows.  The first story involved a politician calling another politician a liar. That alone is about as newsworthy as the morning sunrise. It happens every day in every country. […]

“What we have here is a failure to communicate,” the famous line from the movie, Cool Hand Luke, is also frequently the first line lecture supervisors give when attempting to improve organizational effectiveness. It is assumed that if we could only increase communication, we could increase productivity.
While many problems are the result of a failure […]

Every morning Emi Renov, a high school junior at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls on Long Island, makes the same announcement over the intercom. She asks the students to refrain from engaging in gossip for one hour.  Is it working? According to a recent article in the New York Times it is.
Through gossip […]