Word: lazio
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Piero Marrazzo was forced to step down as governor of Rome's region, Lazio, on Oct. 27 after an alleged blackmail scheme set off the spiral of embarrassing revelations about his private life. Prosecutors have now opened homicide investigations into the deaths of two people linked to Marrazzo, who was first elected in 2005 after years as host of a popular consumer watchdog talk show on the RAI national TV network. Investigators say Marrazzo is not a suspect in the Nov. 20 arson that killed a Brazilian transgender prostitute known as Brenda, nor the September death of a Rome-based...
...Tuesday evening, Aug. 25, the outspoken owner of the Rome-based Lazio club added to the polemics, saying he makes a point of avoiding the "problem" of Ramadan. "I respect religious freedom and the ways that it is expressed," Claudio Lotito told reporters after a meeting of Serie A officials in Milan. "But I try to prevent things that can slow down training and the playing of matches. I've never bought players that have this problem." (See pictures marking the end of Ramadan...
...violence that has long plagued the Italian soccer league left another victim dead on Sunday, shot at a highway rest stop, and dozens of police and team supporters injured in subsequent rioting. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old fan of the Rome-based team Lazio, was shot through the neck Sunday by a highway police officer at a Tuscan branch of the Autogrill restaurant chain after a brawl erupted between their fans and the Juventus supporters who'd crossed paths on their way to their respective teams' road games in different cities. The bad news about the shocking incident...
...week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report on the ills of the Italian game also included a visit in southern Rome to Lazio fan headquarters, adorned with Fascist-era Celtic crosses and photographs of Benito Mussolini. When I arrived with an AP photographer, a leader of the "Irrudicibile" rooting section refused to talk to me, made the photographer turn over his film, and accused my bearded colleague of "looking like a leftist...
...First Lady days.Inevitably, some of her advisers will push the womanly image that won many votes during her 2000 Senate campaign. But in the fight for the presidency, voters do not want a victim, which she played well in 2000 when her opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), nearly attacked her during the pair’s first debate or when her approval soared to all-time highs across the nation post-Monica. As the country saw in the downfall of the weak-kneed Kerry and the staid Gore to the cowboy Bush, though, the way to the White...