July 28, 2006

What We Have Here Is ... the International Communication Association

By CARLIN ROMANO

The most famous act of communication — or failure of communication — in the history of this iconic 800-year-old city began on February 13, 1945.

In three waves of attacks, British and American bombers dropped nearly 4,000 tons of bombs on a city whose residents hoped their town's fabled Baroque beauty, art, and architecture, and putatively minor connection to the Nazi war effort, would protect them from just such a pasting.

The firebombing many now simply