Word: milan
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...lace the boots of Kaka or Ronaldinho, the most recent winners of the World Player of the Year award. Of the 11 players who started against Argentina last month, only one, Adriano, played for a Brazilian club, and he was there on loan from Internazionale of Milan...
...Laura, 23, from Milan, Italy, is part of a group that's accompanied the wooden cross - she likens it to the Olympic Torch - around Australia. They've received nothing but smiles, she says: "Australians are very welcoming." She hopes World Youth Day will provoke the secular to reflect more about faith: "Seeing all these people who come from all over the world - and it's a hard and long trip - maybe they will think, This must be something important." Maybe even as important as the football finals...
...lack of cooperation within the region has been a key impediment to more investment in North Africa, notes Carlo Altomonte, a professor of international economic policy at Milan's Bocconi University. "One of the main reasons of the trading success in Eastern Europe is that they integrated among themselves," he says. "If you invest in Tunisia, you get stuck in Tunisia. The North Africans are painfully slow to trust each other...
...running an international business, not mixing martinis for the master. He won't say how profitable Quintessentially is. But since he started the company in 2000 with two friends, it has grown to around 1,000 employees, with 45 offices around the world-including jet-set pit stops like Milan, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Quintessentially is also expanding into new territory, with a sommelier service and a luxury real-estate locator. "I spoke with a member the other day who just used us to sell his house," Elliot says...
...months ago, but Belgrade politicians insist that it's still Serbian. Indeed, over the objections of the United Nations, Serbian parliamentary elections will be held on May 11 in Mitrovica and several other Serb-populated areas of Kosovo. "We want to stay within Serbia, with our own institutions," says Milan Ivanovic, a physician who heads a hard-line local movement that calls itself the Serbian National Council. "The territory of Serbia is everywhere where Serbs...