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...pocket, hopped in his car and went looking for a Roma to shoot. Angry about being out of work, angry about the recent burglary of his apartment, he blamed it all on the Roma, 150,000 of whom live on the margins of Italian society. The man found his target in a neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the capital: an 11-year-old boy, walking with his aunt. He pulled up and shot the boy in the face. The boy's injury was minor, but the emotional trauma of having a gun fired in his face...
...Although Italy has had an anti-hate crime law on the books since 1975, the police did not consider this a hate crime. "This was more of a vendetta," says an Italian police official. Very often, hate crimes are dismissed as the unimpressive work of mindless, bored youths out on a bender. And very often they are. But researchers generally agree that hate crimes are not simply caused by poverty or ignorance; often they grow out of a combination of high youth unemployment, the presence of many new immigrants, and a lack of law enforcement. It is this third element...
...have. Without some swift assumption of real power by Iraqis, local resentment of coalition forces will only grow. As a leaked report from the CIA station chief in Baghdad details, the number, intensity and organizational sophistication of attacks on coalition forces are all on the increase. Last week 19 Italians and 13 Iraqis were killed when a car bomb blew up an Italian base in Nasiriyah. Seven Americans were killed in six attacks, and at least another 17 died when two U.S. helicopters crashed in midair as one apparently dodged shooting from the ground...
...were injured in several strikes on the Palestine and Sheraton hotels - the heavily-guarded homes to Western journalists and civil defense contractors. A similar attack aiming as many as 10 missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive devices planted near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad and close to the offices of a Kurdish political party were disarmed by U.S. troops. - By Adam Smith Holding the Cards SPAIN The pro-independence Catalan Republican Left party nearly doubled its representation in the Catalan assembly, winning 23 of 135 seats in regional elections...
...discovered a brand with a droll name: Time. Turned out they were the French version of the American brand, More. (More, in French, sounds like the word for death. "Donnez-moi un packet de Mort, s'il-vous plait." In Italy, they're pronounced Mor-ay: nearly the Italian word for love.) Since the mid-90s I've bought Capri Menthol 120s, a cigarette so svelte and mild that, I joke, smoking them makes you live longer...