Word: gallie
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...Giancarlo Galli, a biographer of both Cuccia and the Agnelli clan, notes that for a short time before Colaninno emerged, the Agnelli family had virtual control of Telecom with just .8% of shares. "Italian finance has never really functioned with money," he says. "It's been more like trading baseball cards...
...Italia deal, although a few ministers expressed satisfaction that the firm would remain in Italian hands, as have most of the Italian media, perhaps no surprise since most of the major papers are largely controlled by the main players in the deal. "Maybe the old-style is better," muses Galli. "But it seems to me that we've brought the king back." And the crown prince as well...
...furnishings was regal and excellent. In New York City his base was an opulent apartment in the Dakota; in Paris, an even grander flat on the Quai Voltaire. Both places became salons whenever he was in town; he loved flamboyant people. The Italian island of Li Galli appealed to him because it not only had been owned by the Russian choreographer Leonid Massine but also had been previously visited by Ulysses: it is the legendary home of the Sirens...
...generally excellent; for instance, Sicilian-descended Carlo Middione's new Pasta! Cooking It, Loving It (Irena Chalmers Cookbooks). Accessories for making pasta proliferate: drying machines, ravioli crimpers, cutting wheels, rolling pins, tomato presses, electric cheese graters and dies to make dozens of special shapes like creste di galli (cockscombs) and capelli di preti (small priests' hats...
...early days, we Jews were in search of our national identity. Now the Palestinians are going through the same search for their national identity. The only foreseeable solution is a territorial compromise." So says Elkana Galli, a former adviser to Israel's first Premier, David Ben- Gurion...