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This article is dedicated to my beloved Sarah who has been an unfailing inspiration in the creation of it...
I am sick and tired of hearing about American students, studying for a year or
so in Florence, Italy, being sacrifced upon the altar of a Big Educational
Business, and having to undergo traumatic emotional and physical sexual
excruciations. This tragedy has been going on and on and on now for just too
long (see Drunken, Drug-Sotted American Students, written in 2007, on
www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior), and there appears to be no measure of
good senseon the parts of the Italian and United States' governmentsto
bring the disgraceful state of affairs under some sort of control.
I'm disgusted...
Bill Clinton once threatened to close the Florentine consulate down. I only
wish he had done so. The consulate staff is always at the ready to keep alive
the status quo: business is business and let's hope there will be no more of
this embarrassing nonsense.