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Monday, February 13. 2006

Olympic Geography

In reviewing the coverage of the opening ceremonies last Friday, AP writer David Bauder, made this estute overservation regarding NBC's choice of using the Italian name for the host city.

WHERE'S ROMA?: We'd almost gotten used to NBC's decision to use the Italian version of "Turin" throughout its coverage until they drew attention to it by showing a map of Italy with "Rome," "Florence" and "Torino."

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