"President Obama had just disembarked from Air Force One and was still on the tarmac in Rome when he turned to his host, John R. Phillips, the American ambassador to Italy, with an unexpected request: How about a dinner party tomorrow night?
Over
the next 24 hours, the startled Mr. Phillips and his wife, the former
Obama aide Linda Douglass, scrambled to gather some of Italy’s
intellettuali.
The
architect Renzo Piano flew in from Genoa. The particle physicist
Fabiola Gianotti arrived from Geneva. John Elkann, the chairman of Fiat
and an owner of the Italian soccer club Juventus, came, too, as did his
sister, Ginevra, a film director. Over a 2006 Brunello, grilled rib-eye
and three pasta dishes — cacio e pepe, all’arrabbiata and Bolognese — at
Villa Taverna, the 15th-century manor that serves as the ambassador’s
residence, the group talked until close to midnight about “the
importance of understanding science, the future of the universe, how
sports brings people together, and many other things,” Ms. Douglass
said."
Yet he kept pronouncing Juventus, 'Jew-Ventus.'
Other than that, all is well.
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