Word: di
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...note how lawyers have learned to turn their back to the camera when exchanging jokes and smirks. And though joking persists even after Judge Lance Ito enters the chamber, solemnity rules once the camera begins to roll. Even home viewers perceive the impact as they monitor Marcia Clark's Di-like makeover, with hair that's gone from shaggy mane to Madison Avenue sleek and a once frumpy wardrobe that now rivals Grace Van Owen...
...Bosnian litter: half-devoured bodies . skulls . busy, slithering snakes. The painting St. George and the Dragon is a vision of evil perfectly at home in the late 20th century, even though the artist imagined it almost 500 years ago. It gleams like a premonition in the garage-dim Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. What is missing from the picture in 1995, of course, is the St. George part -- the rescue: Evil impaled, Good's shining blond revenge...
Argentina, which waged a losing war against Britain for control of the Falkland Islands in 1982, now wants to buy them. Argentine Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella said his government was prepared to offer the more than 2,000 Falklanders up to $800,000 per inhabitant. The British government says the islanders have a right to self-determination, but the Falklands' governor insists they will not sell their nationality...
TIME's Burke reports that Antonio Di Pietro, a legendary Italian prosecutor who has spearheaded "Clean Hands," is under investigation himself. Prosecutors in the northern city of Brescia are looking into a $75,000 loan he received from a businessman who was later implicated in the investigation. Of Di Pietro, once the most popular man in Italy, a graduate student in Rome told Burke: "He was the only person in Italy I believed...
Peter K. Bol, professor of Chinese history, was re-elected to the council. William H. Bossert, Arnold professor of science and master of Lowell House; Nicola Di Cosmo, assistant professor or professor of Chinese and inner Asian history; George B. Field, Willson professor of applied astronomy; Theda Skocpol, professor of sociology; and Judith D. Vichniac, lecturer in social studies, have been elected to three-year terms...