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...hotel collaborates with Nero (real name Sergio Iacomoni), chief trainer and president of the Scuola Gladiatori Roma, so it can provide guests with something more original than a gym. The courses are proving just as popular as corporate team-building exercises as they are for young classicists and their parents...
...province's population, were calling for independence even before NATO planes forced Serbian security forces out of the province in 1999. U.N. administrators and an estimated 16,000 peacekeepers in Kosovo fear a repeat of the violent riots of March 2004 aimed at minority Serbs and Roma. Kosovar Prime Minister Agim Ceku has warned that the region may declare independence unilaterally if the deadlock persists. "I don't expect any major unrest this summer", says Agron Bajrami, editor of Koha Ditore, a Pristina daily. But if there is no movement before expected elections this fall, "even the mainstream parties will...
...annual business. Hunters - including Vice President Dick Cheney - spend millions hunting white wing doves, which flourish in the brushy habitat. "This is the most biologically diverse region in North America," said Nancy Brown, public outreach officer for the refuge. This rich biodiversity has helped revive little border towns like Roma, a former river steamboat port, whose picturesque 19th century dusty plaza now boasts the World Birding Center. Looking down from the Roma Bluffs towards a large swath of brush near the international bridge, birders can watch four species of birds, including the Audubon oriole and the rare white-collared seedeater...
...plane landed from Helsinki. Soon after her return, Serifovic became the object of a parliamentary debate, as legislators from various parties each claimed her support. "Marija Serifovic and her mother Verica both endorsed our party during the [January] election campaign," claimed Rajko Djuric, a chairman of the Serbian Roma Union, a party representing ethnic gypsies. "This is a shameless lie," retorted Aleksandar Vucic of the Radical Party. "Jasko Serifovic, Marija's grandfather, has been a member of our party since 1995." The debate was interrupted by the singer herself, when she paid a short visit to the parliament on Monday...
...staying away from politics is hard in Serbia, as Serifovic must be aware. In the weeks prior to the Eurovision contest, she was subjected to vicious attacks by Serbia's virulently nationalistic tabloids, some of which focused on her Roma (Gypsy) ethnicity. Others derided her looks, declaring she was "too ugly to represent Serbia," or tried to expose her as a lesbian. In her interviews, Serifovic persistently declines to discuss her private life and her sexual orientation...