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...applies to Great Britain does not apply to Greece." The old law-school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking a postwar statute still on the books, Italian soccer player Paolo Di Canio gave his fans at Lazio a fascist salute. He was disqualified for a game and fined €10,000 - but not prosecuted. On the other hand, a prosecutor secured a court order last year shutting a website that concocted a photomontage of Pope Benedict...
...home of auto giant Fiat. The company brought modern production methods to Mussolini's Italy and after World War II helped fuel a flourishing middle class with its cheap and stylish small cars. Today, the city is known chiefly among sports fans as the home of Italy's perennial soccer powerhouse Juventus - which doesn't even put Torino in its name...
...learn "we're Italian too. We have that same passion and joy for life." Yet though city fathers want the Olympics to show off Torino, most Italians, even the Piemontesi, focus their athletic attention on a certain sport played on flat fields. "In Italy, if it isn't called soccer, it's hard to get a lot of people interested," says Roberto Grissiotto, a Torino sales manager for an auto-safety manufacturer. This, added to a general Italian nonchalance, may help explain the lukewarm start to ticket sales: some 30% of the 1 million tickets were still available a week...
...hope that the antipathy was restricted to an irrational few or might blow over after the Games disappeared. In a poll taken before Korea was a co-host of the 2002 soccer World Cup, Ohno topped Osama bin Laden as the person Koreans least wanted to attend. Neither showed...
...just to prove it was possible to serve in Congress and still see your children. ?Heath, Rahm, I?m at the pool with my kids,? he said, and then quickly hung up. Another time, ?Heath, I?m driving my kids to school.? Later, ?Heath, we?re getting ready for soccer practice...