Word: gaetano
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...associates for allegedly bribing Rome judges in the mid-'80s returned to a Milan courtroom last Saturday. As usual, the defendant was not physically present. That doesn't mean he wasn't busy on the case. The Prime Minister had a two-hour meeting on Thursday with Gaetano Pecorella, a lawyer and legislator who divides his time between defending Berlusconi in the Milan case and chairing the lower house's justice committee - where he has been spearheading the passage of laws that directly affect the trials against his client and other political allies. Is this another glaring conflict of interest...
...Lowell House, the realization that this was a special place and a special time hit you very quickly. There, trudging along the walks in deep preoccupation, was the antifascist scholar in exile, Gaetano Salvemini, and there was the elegant figure of Heinrich Bruning, the former chancellor of Germany, forced to leave in 1934 and on the Harvard faculty since 1936. We weren't in Kansas anymore, Toto, nor in Oswego County, N.Y., which was more to the point...
...research was done on rats that had been injected intravenously with a small dose of nicotine, about as much as a smoker receives from a single drag on a cigarette. The team, led by Gaetano di Chiara, a neuroscientist at the University of Cagliari, then monitored the biochemical changes that occurred in the nucleus accumbens, an area of the brain that appears to control the process of addiction...
COMPOSER: GAETANO DONIZETTI...
...Gaetano) Talese was born and raised in Ocean City, N.J., a seaside resort founded by teetotaling Methodist ministers who sought a prim and sober alternative to glitzy Atlantic City nearby. Growing up "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," young Gay felt himself an alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote...