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...droopy performance against the Czechs. They fouled early and often, and when they got the ball they attacked, particulary down the right side. That was thanks to Clint Dempsey - inserted into the lineup for a lethargic DaMarcus Beasley - who couldn't wait to take on the Italian defense. The man looked absolutely cool, neatly combining with Bobby Convey in the 20th minute, the latter skying the cross...
These days, no brand is complete, it seems, without its own hotel. Volkswagen has Fox, a 61-room Copenhagen property named after the automaker's compact runabout. Italian jeweler Bulgari has lent its name to a hotel in Milan. And in Barcelona, Spanish shoemaker Camper has its own venture, Casa Camper, www.camper.es, set on a street off the city's famed Las Ramblas. Like the footwear it's named after, this 25-room affair demonstrates that style and affordability are not mutually exclusive. For a low-season average of around $250 a night (roughly $300 in the high-season months...
...overflows with gourmet comestibles, stocking around 46,000 products from exquisite smoked salmon and marinated olives to fresh oysters. But it's the non-Western delights that are Great's real points of difference, with the store boasting very wide Japanese, Korean and kosher selections alongside the Italian, German or French fare. Choose your sashimi or sushi, get some kimchi on the side, and then head over to nearby Hong Kong Park for Asian alfresco dining. Paris Founded on the Left Bank as Paris' first department store, the Louis-Auguste Boileau and Gustave Eiffel-designed Le Bon Marché boasts...
...soccer itself has been only fitfully exciting, the huge tournament is also a fiesta, and in that it has not disappointed. Among the celebrators is a young Italian electrician ... spending four years of savings to see one month of soccer. From nearer have come Peruvians in red ponchos, arriving in buses bannered ARRIBA PERU! (Up Peru!). Shaggy Scots, in kilts and tartan scarves, some of whom hitchhiked from New York City, wandered about ... waving bottles of local beer and giant flags bearing their national emblem, the cross of St. Andrew ... El Mundial, (The Global), as this eleventh international competition...
...painter whose dark, moody canvases could sell for upwards of $15,000, Wada won Japan's prestigious Minister of Education Art Encouragement Prize in March. But a few weeks later, an anonymous tipster alerted government officials that several of his paintings were virtual replicas of works by an Italian artist, Alberto Sughi. When confronted by the media, the 66-year-old Wada claimed his works were an "homage" to Sughi, not theft. Sughi, however, had a different view of their relationship. According to him, Wada had visited his studio in Rome as often as five times a year, often taking...