Word: alessandro
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Though Fowler-Finn has made progress in raising scores, he has not been able to augment enrollment, a problem that plagued D’Alessandro and her predecessor, Mary Lou McGrath...
Fowler-Finn is the third Cambridge superintendent in the last decade. His predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro, was dismissed by the School Committee for failing to boost test scores and enrollment figures. The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School almost lost accreditation during her tenure...
...Italians fight back? Alessandro Calligaris has a blunt answer: "We have to win the loyalty of our customers." He is 60, with a fuzz of white hair and a reputation as the most successful businessman in the chair triangle. His company, the namesake Calligaris, was started by his grandfather in 1923 and is still growing. Revenues last year rose 12%, to $140 million. His first big insight, more than a decade ago, was to figure out that the future lay beyond chairs. The Calligaris furnishing collection, sold under the slogan "Italian Living," last year included sofas and beds...
...headquarters, the pattern for Nelson Mandela's pant legs flutters on a rack, and two master tailors look over a camel-colored coat in vicuña before it is sent to a client. "The fabric alone is about $4,800, but it will never, ever wear out," says Alessandro Corso, who grew up in a family of tailors. His colleague Simone Lovino is busy pressing a suit for a client who has returned it because the collar is riding up. "The collar is perfect. He doesn't need a new jacket; he needs a new dry cleaner," he says. Both...
...interfere with the policies of the Italian government. Every day the Pope or some Cardinal appears on the TV news, and politicians queue to kneel before the Pope, thereby humiliating the state. If only some latter-day Henry VIII would appear on the scene and expel the Vatican. Alessandro Berrini Milan Exit Strategy The average American is simply sick of the U.S.'s spending our money and our young people's lives for political ideals [Dec. 5]. What would Americans do if Saddam Hussein or any other world leader believed that Bush was evil and decided to trump up charges...