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With an extensive background in criminal and human rights law, the Argentinian professor’s career has been peppered with successful crusades against corruption and war crimes—most notably the prosecution of several members of Argentina’s military junta in the 1980s...
...American palate increasingly accepts and incorporates foreign cuisines, grilling is an early adapter. "The Indonesian satay guy, the Indian tandoori master, the Argentinian asador, the Mexican carnita lady all have a lingua franca with the Texas brisket guy," says Raichlen. But to cook these new dishes, the patio daddios need temperature control, they need more than one method of cooking and they at least think they need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company...
...told National Public Radio that he planned to give up the cello for the bandoneon, an Argentinian accordion. Instantly, NPR’s phone lines were jammed with listeners despondent over the loss of their favorite instrumentalist...
...Another candidate-José Cura, a moodily good-looking Argentinian who is a Domingo protégé and Warner Music's great hope-may have taken himself out of contention. His is a warm, dramatic voice, but the New York Times castigated his "crude musicianship." Stunts like Cura's 1999 Royal Festival Hall recital, when he conducted his own arias, have led to a reputation for egotism and headlines like "the Ego Has Landed" (The Independent on his "posturing" London Otello). Cura now says he is "a serious artist, not interested in marketing clichés like who will...
...last year has seen the music world excited by two new voices, both snapped up by Sony: another Argentinian, Marcelo Alvarez, and the Italian Salvatore Licitra. Alvarez, however, has a voice too light for the supertenors' territory of arenas and stadiums, and Licitra is still unproved-although recent performances at La Scala have set music critics writing things like "Not since Pavarotti...