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...truth is that for the past 20 years, Portugal has been alone in defending the rights of the Timorese people, which have been overlooked by more powerful countries for economic reasons. The decision of the Nobel Committee should be praised, not treated as a controversial issue. CARLO PESCE Genoa, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...which as I imagine the birds would tell you now, is awfully cold for mating. Henry Kelly, who actually wrote a book on this subject, suggests that Chaucer's St. Valentine's Day took place not in midwinter but in early May, in honor of an obscure saint from Genoa. Later poets erroneously carried the bird's mating day to the original St. Valentine's feast day on February...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Sex, Lies and Valentine | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

...triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERATIC ARTISTOCRACY | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...GENOA: Sunday, Bloody Sunday Italians are forgoing sports for a day in an effort to atone for a national epidemic of stadium violence that resulted in the murder of a football fan. Authorities canceled all national sporting events scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 5, after Genoa supporter Vincenzo Spagnolo was knifed to death the previous Sunday in a brawl before his team's game against Milan. Though Milan booster Simone Barbaglia, 18, has been charged with Spagnola's death, many Italians feel the crime typifies a nationwide trend of rising violence. Said Enrico Spigone, 30, a Lazio rooter: ``The problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...triumph of that partnership. The first act's set, again a house and a garden, is closely modeled on Petrarch's villa outside Padua, a mellow, roseate brick with a graceful staircase. To gaze at it is to be transported to the vivid politics of 14th century Genoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERATIC ARISTOCRACY | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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