One Sunday morninginMay, I arrived at the club's boat house, an old hangar-like space near the marina that was stacked floor to ceiling with traditional Venetian boats.
The deadly shelling of Homs just before the U.N. vote on Saturday morning, which activists said left more than 200 people dead inone of the most violent episodes yet, may be an early taste of what is to come as a strained loyalist army struggles to quash a spreading rebellion.