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...settled. The last fatality was in February when a 38-year-old police officer, Filippo Raciti, was killed by a teenage fan in Catania during rioting at the stadium in the Sicilian city. After the death, there was much talk of applying the same techniques that the English Premier League have used to stamp out violence, with more control by stewards in the stadium and swifter punishments such as enforcing legal sentences and banning people from attending games. There are some signs that clashes have been reduced, as figures released by the government confirm. Still, the basic dynamic in Italy...
Huff, seated before his computer on which he arranges music, is surrounded by rows of books, photos of friends and premier organists, and a lamp in the shape of a cat, its innards expected to glow when switched on. A closet, door ajar, holds recordings of the choir...
...certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that." Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, considers such ideas retrograde. He has said foreign quotas would "kill the Premier League" because it would impede the clubs' ability to find and field the best players possible. He also rejects the notion that quotas would safeguard local talent. "It won't protect the best players, it will protect the mediocre ones," Wenger has argued. "And you don't win a World...
Some RVs cost as little as $4,000, but it's the luxury market--where units range from $300,000 to over $1 million--that is booming. Country Coach, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of premier motor homes, offers models that include hardwood floors, leather couches and guest bathrooms. Last year the company reported a 22% increase in sales of RVs priced at more than...
...First came Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking U.S. assistance against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and help advancing Turkey's pursuit of entry into the European Union. Some might have thought it an odd moment for Anakara's premier to pay a courtesy call on Washington, what with the recent recall of the Turkey's ambassador to Washington in protest over moves in the U.S. Congress to label the massacre of Armenians in 1915 a genocide. And then there are the mounting fears of a Turkish incursion into Iraq to stop cross-border raids into southeastern Turkey...