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• Notes and comments 2 - Imperato, Italian corruption and the Vatican | Corrupt Italian synonymy | Berlusconi no Italian politician | When the wrong man says the right things | Truth, saying and being in Aristotle | The non-lynching of Bush | Weeping your way to tenure | ... (JUST Response: Jan 2006)

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2005

• Notes and comments 1 - Spaghetti conjunction | Family resemblances | Limiting freedom of speech in the EU | Italian politicians | Understanding hating | Authority in the nose | Moonshine and theology | In the name of Christ | When artistic depiction is too strong to bear | Blair, Bush and the history books | Words, souls and people | Rite and wrong books | Changing hands and handing change | UK journalists manipulated on Italian TV | Spineless backbone in T.S. Eliot | Vital disjunctions | Beyond belief | Founding fathers of corruption | Vatican cash | The weight of Italian scholarship | Mencius, Christ, Einstein & Russell | Intellectual immunity to appearances | Singular Siamese relation | Boxing clever | Philosophy comedy | Hell hath no fury. (JUST Response: Jan-Dec 2005)

• Re-Christianising Europe against Islam & relativism - Review of Joseph Ratzinger & Marcello Pera. (JUST Book Reviews: 21 Nov 2005)

• Doctrinal mind control in Italy - A 3-part interview with Pacitti on Roman Catholic indoctrination. (JUST Response: 22 Aug 2005)

• A tu per tu con Domenico Pacitti - Original italian version of 'Doctrinal mind control in Italy'. (Alexamenos: 21 Aug 2005)

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2004

• Ten questions on Italian universities answered - Pacitti replies to Jonathan Collins in Washington DC, USA. (JUST Response: 17 Dec 2004)

• Verona's answer to the brain drain: the case of Luca Benatti - Pacitti replies to Luca Benatti in Leeds, England. (JUST Response: 17 Dec 2004)

• Doctored truths from Italian academic Disneyland - Pacitti replies to David Aliaga in Calgary, Canada. (JUST Response: 9 Oct 2004)

• Apostles' greed: cupola control, cosmetic credibility and high-flying hypocrisy - Pacitti replies to Robert J. Martini in Berkeley, USA. (JUST Response: 29 Sep 2004)

• Why is the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee not watching Italy? - Pacitti replies to Giuseppe D. in Messina, Italy. (JUST Response: 28 Aug  2004)

• Why Italy's 50,000 university teachers should be sacked - Pacitti replies to Katarina Björnstjerna in Göteborg, Sweden. (JUST Response: 23 Jul  2004)

• What Berlusconi has done for Italian culture - Pacitti replies to Gillian Harper in Wellington, New Zealand. (JUST Response: 26 Jun 2004)

• Berlusconi's legal reforms: justice or vendetta? - Berlusconi presses on with legal reforms in the face of accusations that he is carrying out a vendetta. (JUST Response: 24 Feb 2004)

• Anti-corruption advice for Korea - Pacitti tells The Korea Times how the current Korean anti-corruption drive can avoid the pitfalls of Italy's ill-fated Operation Clean Hands. (The Korea Times: 11 Feb 2004)

• Against "This" Globalization - Pacitti talks to Vittorio Agnoletto who represented the Italian movement at the international council of the World Social Forum, 2002. (Z Magazine: Jul/Aug 2002)

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2003

• Hijacking truth: Telekom Serbia - Italy's latest political corruption scandal, Telekom Serbia. (JUST Response: 23 Sep 2003)

• Economising on truth: The Economist and Berlusconi - Pacitti looks at The Economist's relentless campaign against Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi. (JUST Response: 17 Sep 2003)

• Roman Catholic principles of corruption in Italy - Influence of Roman Catholic doctrine on longrunning endemic corruption in Italian society. Now other EU member states risk being similarly infected. (JUST Response: 26 Aug 2003)

• Berlusconi on balance - Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister and wealthiest man, is now well into the third year of his term in office. Pacitti assesses his criminal and political record. (JUST Response: 26 Aug 2003)

• Di Pietro, corruption and Clean Hands - Antonio Di Pietro, the former Milan magistrate, became an overnight national hero in Italy in the early 1990s for bringing leading politicians to justice on corruption charges. Pacitti tells what happened and why Clean Hands failed. (JUST Response: 26 Aug 2003)

• Italian earthquakes of corruption - What is the connection between earthquakes and corruption in Italy and why do Italian earthquakes always come in twos? Domenico Pacitti explains. (JUST Response: 30 Aug 2003)

• Corruption in Italy: Church, politics & universities (1), Corruption in Italy (2), Corruption in Italy (3) - Indispensable ABC of Italian culture as mafia-style corruption. Full transcript of Pacitti's classic interview with Indro Montanelli published for the first time. (JUST Response: 17-23 Jul 2003)

• Appeal for David Aliaga - Pacitti urges the Human Rights Watch Academic Freedom Committee to intervene in the Aliaga case and help change a university system that Italians have for centuries shown themselves unable or unwilling to reform. (JUST Response: 25 Jul 2003)

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2002

• Deterring democracy in Italy - A key case of thought control. Noam Chomsky tells Domenico Pacitti that criminal accusations against Silvio Berlusconi are trivial by US standards and explains how Italy has been the main target of US efforts to undermine democracy since the Second World War. (Terrelibere: 25 Feb 2002)

• Life in the land of nods, winks and little shrugs - Domenico Pacitti reviews Paul Ginsborg's Italy and its Discontents - a curious attempt to distort the last 20 years of Italian history. (The Times Higher: 27 Sep 2002)

• No holiday in Rome - To graduate in Italy students must study for up to 10 years in a system that is crowded, bureaucratic and poorly resourced. (The Guardian: 8 Oct 2002)

• Paese che vai, usanza che trovi - and other well-known Italian sayings deciphered: Domenico Pacitti's handbook for visiting academics (and others) to Italy. Linguistic instruction, moral indignation and social denunciation are all in the same text. (The Informer: 2 May 2002)

• University of Bari students back lettori against rector - Italy's universities continue to discriminate against foreign-language lecturers. Over 650 angry students from the faculty of foreign languages and literature at the University of Bari in southern Italy have petitioned the rector to reinstate their original language teachers. (The Adjunct Advocate: Jan/Feb 2002)

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Select articles

• A cocktail of bombs, drugs and inequality that just keeps on killing - Light on Colombia (The Times Higher: 31 Aug 2001)
• A new twist in an old turn of phrase - Interview with Noam Chomsky (The Times Higher: 24 Mar 2000)
• Alien nations - Kafkaesque experiences for Italy's foreign-language lecturers (The Guardian: 15 Sep 1998)
• Bolognese flavoured corruption - Inside view of an Italian exam commission (The Times Higher: 10 Jul 1998)
• Bolognese flavoured exam commission - List of Bologna commission members (Gazzetta Ufficiale: 1998)
• Catholic church vs saviour of childless - Interview with Severino Antinori (The Times Higher: 6 Oct 2000)
• Clampdown on dirty dons - Students molested by professors in Bari (The Guardian: 16 Jun 1998)
• Clan mentality rules in Italian universities - Interview with Indro Montanelli (The Times Higher: 9 Jan 1998)
• Conflicting interests - Why Silvio Berlusconi is seen as a threat to democracy (World Parliamentarian: May/Jun 2001)
• Court threat to plagiarists - International publishers against plagiarism by Italian academics (The Times Higher: 3 Jan 1997)
• Dead souls - Why the soul of Italian academia is dead (Parliament Magazine: 22 Mar 1999)
• Does the devil eat hot dogs? - Interview with an Italian theologian (The Times Higher: 21 Dec 2000)
• Fight for doctorate blocked - Incredible odyssey of a doctoral student (The Times Higher: 14 Aug 1998)
• Firm grip of corruption - University of Messina run by Mafia (The Guardian: 7 Jul 1998)
• Fourth court case for Italy's lettori - Italy's lettori vs Italy again at the European Court of Justice (The Guardian: 18 Dec 2000)
• Good intentions, poor credibility - Review of Romano Prodi (The Times Higher: 15 Oct 1999)
• In search of justice - Britain & France back lettori over bitter job discrimination dispute in Italy (The Guardian: 7 Mar 2000)
• Italian jobs in high places - Why Italian universities are a black hole (The Guardian: 2 Feb 1997)
• Italian journey - Summer courses for foreigners and the brighter side of Italy (The Guardian: 27 Jun 1999)
• Italy goes on violating human rights - Mafia & university mentality in Italy (The Herald: 6 Jul 1996)
• Italy's numismatic Mr Prodi - Guru or Godfather? - Prodi's Italian values (Parliament Magazine: 17 May 1999)
• Lettori win again but fear Italian Houdini tactics - Fourth job discrimination case against Italy (The Adjunct Advocate: Nov/Dec 2001)
• Literary philosophy - Review of Umberto Eco's philosophy (The Times Higher: 22 Jan 1999)
• Parables and the pursuit of everyday meaning - Interview with Umberto Eco (The Times Higher: 23 Jan 1998)
• Poor university - Reply to critics (Espresso: 13 Nov 1997)
• Professors with leaning difficulties - Corruption shakes Pisa's leaning tower. (The Guardian: 19 Aug 1997)
• Renaissance man steps in - Interview with Luigi Berlinguer (The Guardian: 3 Feb 1998)
• Running on a clean-up ticket - On the eve of general elections, Italy's star anti-corruption campaigner Antonio Di Pietro tells Domenico Pacitti why he wants to purge politics of big business. (The Times Higher: 11 May 2001)
• Shocking treatment - Domenico Pacitti asks Italy's top psychiatrist Giovanni B. Cassano why he believes that the mentally ill need electric shock treatment.  (The Times Higher: 25 Sep 1998)
• Signs of the times - Interview with Umberto Eco (The Guardian: 24 Mar 1998)
• Tempo of reform is rising - Italy's students criticise their universities. (The Guardian: 27 May 1997) 
• The face of revolution - Antonio Di Pietro tells Pacitti why he wants to purge Italian politics of big business. (World Parliamentarian: Feb 2001)
• Truth to tell - Interview with Noam Chomsky (The Guardian: 18 Apr 2000)
• Unfair exchange - Foreign students suffer discrimination in Italy. (The Guardian: 25 Mar 1997)

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