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Abito a Roma nei pressi di una scuola (medie e liceo), e all’inizio e alla fine delle lezioni la mia via si riempie di ragazzi. Mi capita così di ascoltare assai spesso le loro chiacchiere, gli scambi di battute. Ebbene, quello che mi arriva alle orecchie è una continua raffica di parolacce e di bestemmie, un oceano di turpiloquio. Praticamente, qualunque sia l’argomento, in una sorta di coazione irrefrenabile dalle loro bocche viene fuori ogni tre parole un’oscenità o una parola blasfema.

Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for the office, perhaps should not be blamed for thinking that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds. So, his presidency is useful after all, because it illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Newt Gingrich won a resounding, come-from-behind victory Saturday in South Carolina's Republican primary, beating Mitt Romney by more than 12 percentage points and opening the way for a potentially contentious battle within the GOP between the establishment and insurgent wings of the party.

AFP - 3.50 am, local time -- SAT Jan 14, 2012

Six people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast in an accident which forced the coast guard to evacuate over 4,000 people, media reports said.

The Costa Concordia was on a trip around the Mediterranean when it hit a reef near the Isola del Giglio late Friday. The local mayor said he feared further casualties as it was proving difficult to rescue the last passengers.

Roma per la prima volta a BBB+ come Perù e Kazakistan. Ma l'agenzia promuove il nuovo governo. Calano Austria, Spagna e Portogallo. Berlino si salva. Piazza Affari giù. Bene asta Btp

Il Messaggero

IL MATTINO.it            Giovedì 29 Dicembre 2011  - 15:00

msnbc.com -  An Associated Press report

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Seven people believed to be related had opened their Christmas gifts and started cleaning up the wrapping paper when they were shot to death in a suburban Fort Worth apartment, police said Sunday.

Authorities said they believe the shooter is among the dead.

Reuters - 17 min ago

ABUJA (Reuters) - Islamist militants set off bombs across in Nigeria on Christmas Day - three targeting churches including one that killed at least 27 people - raising fears that they are trying to ignite sectarian civil war.

CBS NEWS

(CBS/AP) CAIRO - Egypt's military ruler promised Tuesday to speed up a presidential election to the first half of 2012 and said the armed forces were prepared to hold a referendum on immediately shifting power to civilians -- concessions swiftly rejected by tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square, who chanted, "Leave! Leave!"

The latest standoff plunged the country deeper into crisis less than a week before parliamentary elections, the first since the ouster nine months ago of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.