Word: anna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest victims were Anna Bulgari Calissoni, 56, part owner of the world-famous Bulgari jewelry chain, and her 17-year-old son Giorgio. Mrs. Calissoni, granddaughter of Constantine Bulgari, a founder of the firm, and wife of retired General Franco Calissoni, was abducted along with her son on Nov. 19 from her country home 20 miles south of Rome. It was not the first time kidnapers had singled out the family: in 1975 Gianni Bulgari, Anna's cousin, was abducted, and released only after the family paid a ransom of about $2 million. The family was believed to have...
Angered by the move, the abductors telephoned Laura Calissoni, 29, daughter of Anna and sister of Giorgio, and informed her that something was waiting in a trash can in Rome's Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore. There in a plastic bag the family found a severed ear that investigators believed to be Giorgio's. A second caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read...
When war strikes, Michael K flees burned-out Cape Town on foot, wheeling his sick mother Anna in an improvised wheelbarrow. Their ordeal is infernal. Hounded by the police and by thieves, the pair get as far as a hospital, where Anna dies. Michael K is stripped of his money; all he has left is a cardboard box filled with his mother's ashes. Undeterred, he moves on to the place of his dreams, the abandoned farm on the arid South African tablelands of the Karoo, where his mother was born. There he scatters Anna's ashes...
Strong personal performances revealed that Harvard is improving, slowly but surely. Sophomore forward Anna Collins notched a career-high 20 points, 'which was only the most spectacular stat produced by her all-around superb play. Last year Collins averaged 4.2 points a game...
...hoopsters warmed up quickly, though, when Boutilier got the home team going with a swish on a 20-footer 10 minutes into the game. Captain Val Jordan and Anna Collins added to Crimson momentum with a number of brilliant collaborations under the boards...