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...Torino in the past century was practically a one-company town, an industrial city--dirty, gray. I believe that Torino after the Games will be identified as a city of the arts. Of course, the competition with Venice, Florence, Rome is very tough...
John Quero, manager of Warsaw's Hotel Rialto, agrees. Quero sees Poland as an emerging "niche" weekend destination, "exciting and different from London, Paris, Rome." The Rialto (starting at $263 a night) is tailored to that kind of visitor. Poland's first boutique hotel, it opened last year as an alternative to the other five-star hotels and has since won acclaim for its spare, Art Deco decor and excellent cuisine. Low-cost airlines such as Air Polonia can take travelers into Warsaw from London for as little as $30 for a round trip...
...violence that has long plagued the Italian soccer league left another victim dead on Sunday, shot at a highway rest stop, and dozens of police and team supporters injured in subsequent rioting. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old fan of the Rome-based team Lazio, was shot through the neck Sunday by a highway police officer at a Tuscan branch of the Autogrill restaurant chain after a brawl erupted between their fans and the Juventus supporters who'd crossed paths on their way to their respective teams' road games in different cities. The bad news about the shocking incident...
...death of the fan, a popular DJ in Rome night clubs, is indeed the "senseless tragedy" that commentators are calling it. Police say the officer's pistol went off accidentally while running after the car that Sandri and friends were fleeing in after taking part in the fight. Of course no one should die in such circumstances, and the judicial process should determine the full extent of police culpability. But the outrage should run both deeper, and wider. It should begin with the fact that the kind of violence that erupted in and near stadiums after news of Sandri...
...virtually every week we would file an "Italian Violence Roundup" alongside the coverage of the games. There were also spot stories to file on racist chants and anti-Semitic banners in stadiums. An in-depth report on the ills of the Italian game also included a visit in southern Rome to Lazio fan headquarters, adorned with Fascist-era Celtic crosses and photographs of Benito Mussolini. When I arrived with an AP photographer, a leader of the "Irrudicibile" rooting section refused to talk to me, made the photographer turn over his film, and accused my bearded colleague of "looking like...