Word: rome
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...With reporting by Karen Tumulty / Washington; Michael Scherer / Rome; and Andrea Sachs / New York...
...Genoa G-8 protests of July 2001, which drew an estimated 200,000 demonstrators with hundreds injured - and even some deaths - following clashes with police). And as recently as Tuesday, the day before the start of this year's G-8, there were 36 arrests after clashes in Rome. (Read: "Death in Genoa...
...ROME, Italy—Tomorrow, the G8 summit will convene in L’Aquila, the Italian city in the Abruzzo region that was destroyed by a horrific earthquake on April 6—a disaster that claimed 299 lives. Since April, the city has experienced at least half a dozen tremors (some of them quite significant), including three early this Monday morning and one Monday afternoon. Only two days later, the eight most powerful leaders in the world will meet there for two days. Almost everyone in Italy is asking him/herself the exact same question: Why? Why would...
...course, by 11 a.m. on Monday, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera had run a story on the alternate plan in the works: If the quakes become too angry, the heads of state will just meet in Rome (Wow, original idea! I’m really glad after two weeks someone finally came up with that). However, it’s 24 hours before the summit starts and the plan remains the same: Everyone get in your helicopter and get your very important tush up to an irritable fault line...
...Firstly, Italy is having a bit of an identity crisis. The country isn’t quite certain if it is the globe’s museum or a world power. Walking through the streets of Rome, you see a mélange of ancient ruins, renaissance churches, and fascistic structures. Even the people are old. “Look,” it all seems to say, “once we were powerful; once it was great to be Italian.” Now, residents of the eternal city hardly seem to know what it means...