An unexpected star. A personal and rather (I admit) empirical survey has enabled me to make one observation: these last few weeks, the general media (I'm not referring to specialised press) has given over more space to Professor Mario Monti than to any other star in the news. Likewise in the number of photos, the European Commissioner comes on top, in all categories, including aces of sport and entertainment. In furthering the exercise to the reading of an appreciable number of articles that...