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It is a universal truth about public affairs that politicians, who must always be doing something, will, when they have lost control of large matters, busy themselves with trivia. The city of Rome has just offered an illustration. Any recent visitor to Italy's capital will have observed a seedy, down-at-heel city, short on modern structures or conveniences, infested with thieves and pickpockets, patrolled by a lackadaisical police force, its antiquities unkempt, its transport unreliable, and its people short-tempered. Not to worry, though. Rome's municipal ...