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...murder of his wife, Bonny Bakley, who was killed minutes after the couple had finished dinner at Blake's favorite Italian restaurant; in Los Angeles. BORN. To actor JOHNNY DEPP and his wife, French actress and singer VANESSA PARADIS, a son, Jack; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. CHARGED. ALBERTO FUJIMORI, former President of Peru, with using government funds to recruit congressmen to his party; in Lima, Peru. This is the fourth in a series of criminal charges against Fujimori, who has lived in self-imposed exile in his parents' native Japan since November 2000. SENTENCED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI...
Toledo’s address—part of this weekend’s Harvard International Development Conference—comes after eight months in office, following the fall of Alberto Fujimori. During his speech, Toledo described Fujimori’s government as one mired in corruption and instability...
...alpinist from Franconia, N.H., Bode Miller, had bounced off his butt in the downhill portion and then messed up his first slalom run pretty good. With a single chance left, he found himself well and truly buried. Then he cranked the most sensational slalom run since Phil Mahre and Alberto Tomba hung 'em up, and wound up with silver. Sportswriters, who are metaphor lovers beyond the pale, likened Miller's charge to scoring five touchdowns in the fourth quarter, or hitting two grand slams in a massive ninth-inning rally. Sportswriters enjoy hyperbole only slightly less than metaphor...
When the Nazis occupied the city, the party was over. The grim mood of the times is reflected in paintings like Jean Dubuffet's Building Fa?ades of 1946, where graffiti-like scratches are clawed into a thick black surface, and in sculpture like the Swiss Alberto Giacometti's attenuated and isolated figures. Death's heads entered Picasso's work. Playwright Antonin Artaud spent the war in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. His Self-Portrait of 1947 almost destroys its flimsy paper with savage pencil lines. It's in a private collection, so here is a rare chance to see this...
...need another Alberto Tomba: “I really lack the words to compliment myself today...