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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...
...their curriculum. "We've had teachers from Pennsylvania to California tell us, 'We now cook at home differently. We value food differently.'" And so the next step for Spoons is teacher training. This fall the first group of teachers will attend national training at the Culinary Vegetable Institute in Milan, Ohio. That way the lessons of the Dinner Party Project might be reinforced all year long...
...Iraq when it was governed by Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats. Yet if the report is right, on at least two occasions, Germany allowed rendition operations to be staged at its airports. Italian prosecutors have concluded that their country, too, participated in that operation; a trial in Milan of 22 American alleged cia operatives may begin before the end of this year. The Marty report also alleges some degree of collusion from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Macedonia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. For a practice "utterly alien to the European tradition," an awful...
...Milan Kundera thought of speed much more favorably, but only because of what he termed “vertigo,” the ability to find small moments of imperishability in a world that does not encourage it. Vertigo makes us enjoy the peaceful pleasures of life. By that, Kundera means the life-saving sight of someone you deeply care about sleeping serenely by your side or holding her hand amidst the shipwreck of civilization. Vertigo is about finding meaning in experience, and if having not found it, to make...
...RESIGNED. Franco Carraro, 66, Italian football federation president, amid a growing match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Carraro is under investigation along with some 40 other officials and referees and four Serie A football clubs, including Juventus and AC Milan. On May 4, Italian newspapers sparked the scandal by publishing telephone taps of Juventus director Luciano Moggi discussing referee assignments for club matches with a refereeing official. Juventus's board of directors, including Moggi, resigned en masse last week...