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“Education being used to divide communities is the challenge that we face now as leaders,” Cardona said.

A Florence museum and the city's mayor are inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s sculpture of David.

To think David could be pornographic means truly not understanding the... Bible, not understanding Western culture and not understanding Renaissance art, said the museums director.

Should Michelangelo's David be shown to schoolchildren? Some parents at a Florida school think not - and Florence wants to convince them otherwise.

The Florence museum and the city's mayor extended an invitation after the Florida school's principal was forced to resign after parents complained that an image of the nude statue was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

"Mistaking art for pornography is just ridiculous," said Dario Nardella, the mayor of Florence where the statue resides.

A Florence museum and the city's mayor are inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo's sculpture of David.

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So the first impulse is to discuss these Panama Papers in terms of the big crooks like Valdimir Putin. But let’s hope they get some traction on the presidential campaign trail and put the issue of tax havens at the center of the debate. Yeah, we all know about Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands,…