Sitting in Piazza Navona

Watching the cops chase the fake bag merchants. The cops drive up to one end of the piazza and the merchants run to the other end. The cops drive to the other end and the merchants run back. The cops never get out of their car. No one gets busted. Everyone wins.

Forza Roma, in Six Acts

August 16th 2007
Thursday, August 9 Cyprus trees, those lanky, lofty-canopied alberi begin to punctuate the landscape and I know our train is now rocketing, up to 180 mph, deep into Lazio, a central regione in Italy that nestles in its heart Rome, the country’s capital and our temporary home away from temporary home. Over the last few hours I’ve had a blurred-eye view of the country’s changi ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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