Word: alioto
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Ireland, of course, has its own special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities, has doubled in the past four years--to 1,160. Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality...
DIED. JOSEPH ALIOTO, 81, charismatic San Francisco mayor; in the city whose skyline he altered with such projects as the Embarcadero Center. Tapped for mayor after the chosen Democratic candidate died in 1967, Alioto met his political demise because of unproven allegations of Mob ties and federal charges of bribery (he was acquitted...
...MICHELA ALIOTO (D) District 1 (Northern Coast--Eureka...
...Alioto, 28, is a campaign manager's dream. The granddaughter of former San Francisco mayor Joseph Alioto has worked as an aide to Al Gore, spent $200,000 of her own money on the primary and has overcome great physical adversity. If she wins, she will be the youngest Congresswoman in history...
...Alioto, who worked for Al Gore in the White House before moving back to California to run for Congress, has held events in the past several weeks with Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, Gloria Steinem and George Stephanopoulos, the President's senior adviser. For now, polls show Riggs and Alioto about even. Liz Wilner of the Cook Political Report says, "Presidential turnout could make all the difference in the world...