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...Noted "In reality, it was those people who put him in that situation ... who were wrong." GIULIANO GIULIANI, father of a protester slain in Genoa, explaining that violent anti-globalization demonstrators are as responsible for his son's death as the Italian police...
...decade ago, the prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories, such as Yasuhiko Okudera, who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977 to '86, and Kazuyoshi Miura, who appeared for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa in the 1990s. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched. In the past few years, however, the country's football fortunes have been on the rise. In 1998, the national team made it to the World Cup finals...
...Jails in Genoa, Italy, were emptied because...
...would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories: Yasuhiko Okudera who played in various divisions in Germany from 1977-86, including the Cologne F.C. side that contested the 1978 Champion's Cup. In the 1990s, Kazuyoshi Miura played briefly for Brazil's Santos and Italy's Genoa. But Japan did not even have its own independent professional circuit until 1993 when the J-League was launched?and even then the competition's brightest play came from over-the-hill foreign players like England's Gary Lineker...
...Week BALANCING ACT Switch-hitter Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to play ball with two big teams: China and the U.S. Just days after signing a "friendship and cooperation" treaty with President Jiang Zemin, he turned his attention to President Bush at the G-8 summit in Genoa...