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...school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking a postwar statute still on the books, Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio gave his fans at Lazio a fascist salute. He was disqualified for a game and fined €10,000 - but not prosecuted. On the other hand, a prosecutor secured a court order last year shutting a website that concocted a photomontage of Pope Benedict XVI in a Nazi SS uniform, following disclosures that he had served briefly...
...Equity sold it to a Minnesota entrepreneur for $426 million in cash. The new managers, who had received stock in the postbankruptcy Polaroid, walked away with millions of dollars. Nasser got $12.8 million for his 1 million shares. Other executives and directors were rewarded for their efforts. Rick Lazio, a four-term Republican from West Islip, N.Y., who effectively gave up his House seat for an unsuccessful Senate run against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000, collected $512,675 for a brief stint as a director. That amounted to nearly twice the $282,000 paid to all 6,000 retirees...
...virtually guaranteed to make piles of money? Not really: Europeans love their football (soccer) just as much, yet their leagues and team owners lose gobs of money. For instance, Italy's top league, the Serie A, is a mess. Several teams have gone bust, and one famous team, Lazio (the New York Jets of Rome), was forced to sell off top players to stay afloatthis despite big television contracts. "I've negotiated deals with all the major leagues, and I can tell you that this has nothing to do with luck. It has everything to do with planning...
...academy reveals its secrets to students. Comprehensive courses on wines from around the world and food-wine pairing are among the events and seminars offered to people who live in Rome. For visitors, there are half-day intensive courses followed by lunch or dinner; one-day winery tours in Lazio, Umbria or Tuscany; and delightful guided wine tastings every weekday evening from 6 to 7 p.m. in the wine bar, in Italian and/or English, depending on who turns up. (The wine tasting is $24, courses from...
Other astronomers, such as Dr. Joseph Lazio of the Naval Research Laboratory, are more skeptical of the project’s short-term success, but affirm the significance of the study...