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...DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, legendary comic actor who personified the postwar Italian male, with all his vices and virtues, during a career that spanned more than 50 years; in Rome. Known to Italians as "Big Alberto," Sordi often played an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. He appeared in more than 160 films, although he is best known internationally for his role in the 1965 adventure-comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
...letter on Wednesday, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales wrote to senators that such documents cannot be released—and, he added, all living former solicitors general, both Democrat and Republican, have agreed with him in principle...
...year-old guest at the Catskills resort hotel went on a drunken joyride with a Honduran hotel worker and never returned. Alberto Martinez, then 23, plowed a purloined Olympic Hotel car into a tree, killing youthful passenger Joel Klein. Charged with criminally negligent homicide, Martinez jumped bail and vanished. Two weeks ago he was run to ground - by an FBI computer...
White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has all along been oblique about how the Bush Administration reads the measure, which was strenuously opposed by the securities industry. In a response last month to the two Senators' protests, he said, "Questions about the scope of [the whistle-blower provision] will ultimately be addressed by the courts." --By Viveca Novak
...country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country." Agnelli's business losses were compounded by personal ones. A year after he had chosen his nephew Giovanni Alberto to be his heir at Fiat's helm, the 33-year-old died of cancer, in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's own son Edoardo Agnelli committed suicide by leaping from a viaduct. Fiat today could surely use some of the old Agnelli style. Gianluca Pediconi, an analyst at Credit Suisse First...