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...Throw in this year's high-profile failures in other global sports - the U.S. hockey team's freeze-up in Torino, baseball's loss to Canada (Canada!), in the World Baseball Classic, and the soccer team's struggles at the World Cup (did we mention Tour de France "champ" Floyd Landis and track star Justin Gatlin, both accused of doping?) - and the basketball World Championship, which starts Aug. 19th in Japan, takes on added urgency...
...city's fabled and glamorous nightlife is almost gone, too, but the Lebanese dark sense of humor remains. In Torino's, a bar in the funky Gemayze district, the bartender, Michael, has written "Raad-1" - a type of rocket Israel claims is being used against it - on the chalkboard usually reserved for announcing the daily specials. Below that: "Shlomo Go Home...
...the fine-dining experience you might expect an Agnelli would prefer. The anointed heir to Italy's greatest industrial fortune is settling into his chair at Vittoria, a homespun Torino trattoria where plates clank every time the nearby kitchen door swings open. But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old who is vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's $7.7 billion holding company, it is the perfect setting for a power lunch. "You know why I really like this place?" he asks, lowering his voice and widening his eyes. "Because it's fast...
...slow-food movement. That organized rebuke of fast-food culture began in Italy and has since grown into an international force for pleasant living, sustainable agriculture, heritage animal protection and even cultural survival. It is still largely under the mainstream's radar, but its trade shows in Torino, Italy, regularly attract 140,000 people...
...tuned to the interests of Big Money. The transmission is on an encrypted frequency, and it directs the President much like a radio-controlled toy car. Peter Farr Olympia, Washington, U.S. Honoring a World Champion When I turned to your March 6 coverage of the Winter Olympics in Torino, the big story I found was about the doping controversy involving Austrian skiers - nothing about the positive aspects of the Olympics. What about the "clean" participants? What about the results of competitions? There was only a short "People" item on Shizuka Arakawa, the gold medalist in figure skating...