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...painful truth is India is rubbish at pretty much every other game. It has no football team worthy of the name, ranking 142nd in the world, behind the Maldives (paradise-island nation, pop. 339,330). Its rugby squad lost 78-3 in a recent match in England, to Pershore (pleasant market town, pop. 7,304). And in a century of Olympics, India has won just 16 medals?fewer than that other nation of a billion, China, typically wins at a single Games?and only eight in the last 50 years...
...look at my watch: I have to leave now if I want to catch the 9 a.m. train. Sonja tells me to stay: “Mornings as pleasant as this one are rare, we don’t know when the next one will be.” Although the next town on my itinerary beckons, and there is precious little time to waste, the 10 a.m. train suddenly appears a viable option. The lush courtyard is really too pleasant to leave...
...Roman Holiday, but in the real world a stay in the Italian capital could empty your pockets, especially if you're traveling with kids. A couple of double rooms in a decent, centrally-located hotel will set you back at least ?400 a night. So Residence Barberini is a pleasant surprise: for ?250 to ?375 a night, depending on the season, you get a suite of two rooms, a kitchen and a large marble bathroom, plus access to the guesthouse's funky art collection. Scattered throughout the 19th century mansion are contemporary works by the likes of American Spencer Tunick...
...record $7.2 billion that Greece is pouring into the Games nor of the frantic sprint to modernize Athens but of something more personal and painful: the worldwide presumption that the reputedly party-loving, responsibility-shirking Greeks are about to screw up one of humanity's more pleasant diversions. "The world believes that Athens is not ready, that we do not know how to do things right," he said. Stathatos peered down the empty track, then smiled awkwardly. "I hope the world is wrong...
...Zhang's new movie, House of Flying Daggers, comes as a pleasant corrective, as if the 52-year-old director wanted to counter every criticism of his last movie. Didn't like Hero's creepily authoritarian politics, which seemed to implicitly approve of China's string of ruthless central governments, both past and present? Daggers is a determinedly light-on-its-feet martial-arts romance with plenty of pretty costumes and period-specific peony pavilions. Got lost in Hero's narrative morass? Then skip as quickly as possible to the fightin' and the lovin' of Daggers. The new film...