To avoid any confusion, Damiano suggests a visual cue to separate you from your role as antagonist.

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Damiano Tommasi then had a goal disallowed for offside, a decision that replays showed to be incorrect.

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Italy's Damiano Cunego, 25, won the white jersey as the best young rider.

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Last week, Russell and Damiano visited the Food and Drug Administration offices in Silver Spring, Maryland, to show regulators a prototype for the artificial pancreas.

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Away from the main event and a host of other contenders, including Danilo di Luca and Giro d'Italia winner Damiano Cunego, there will be plenty of other action.

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There are lovely passages about Adam's hospital work with other people's children, for instance, and about Rebecca's work for Mr Damiano, the hotelier, which chime in unexpected ways with the novel's main themes of love and loss.

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"Even when the meeting is over, something called role transference can occur and people may still truly believe that you are against the issue at hand, when in fact you may have been merely trying to get people to think more broadly or deeply, " Damiano says.

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