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Milan already has a healthy acquaintance with the high life, so the opening of the Park Hyatt, just steps away from the Piazza del Duomo, will probably raise few eyebrows among the well-heeled residents of Italy's fashion capital. Everyone else, though, will be pleasantly gobsmacked by this 117-room property. Set in a palatial, late 19th century building, Milan's latest hotel was designed by Ed Tuttle of Amanresorts fame. Visitors will pass through a lobby covered by a 9-m-high glass dome - enabling natural daylight to flood inside - before encountering an environment with enough untrammeled opulence...
Don’t tell Mike Piazza, but the Subway Series is in Minnesota this weekend...
...Friends' first big project: the restoration in 2002 of all 10 pieces of marble statuary in the Loggia of Piazza della Signoria?an outdoor room of the Uffizi. This year, patrons were allowed to choose their favorite among 22 16th century paintings in the Accademia's Tribune (home of Michelangelo's David), and have their names appear on a plaque below the painting as the major donor for its restoration. Mel Gibson and his wife chose Alessandro Allori's Madonna Enthroned. Says Brandolini: "There was an explosion of color because these are all Mannerist paintings. It was the first time...
...doubles side, the fourth-seeded team of Martire-Wang defeated George Mason’s Ballester-Sloper 8-0, Quinnipac’s Piazza-Pasternak 8-6, and UConn’s Adamski-Simcik 8-4 before dropping in the quarterfinals to host Virginia Tech’s own seventh-seeded duo of Kinard...
Some Europeans don't understand that the world changed radically after Sept. 11. On Nov. 10, 2001, in the most beautiful piazza in Rome, we organized a rally in solidarity with an attacked and offended nation and flew the U.S. flag. We were the only ones to do it, and we are proud. I think we are making some headway, though, with the idea that anti-Americanism and anti-globalization are not progressive politics but are pure ideological trash...