On a day when Italy is involved in a major international football match, streets all over the country are deserted until the cars come out honking for a frenetic victory parade or the men shuffle on foot to the Piazza del Duomo for a funereal post-defeat commiseration and recrimination.
On match day in Italy, streets are either fully crowded or empty.
Abrams felt he was defending liberty in Nicaragua, while others might characterize his deception as an effort to subvert democracy in the United States.