Word: gianni
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...printing signs for all its churches in an effort to drive away beggars. Printed in Italian as well as Arabic -- the language of many of the city's poor -- the signs read, in part: We don't want to buy useless, superfluous goods, or see you begging. Explains Father Gianni Sangalli: "Every Sunday large crowds of immigrants gather at the doorstep of many churches in Turin asking for charity or peddling useless objects...
COVER Photograph of Ronald Reagan for TIME by Dirck Halstead; photograph of Pope John Paul II by Gianni Giansanti -- Sygma
When Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis decided to promote Venice as the site for Expo 2000, much of Italy -- and Europe -- shuddered. Most of those opposed to the idea feared for the fragile health of a city already under attack by pollution and threatened by rising sea levels. Still, the 47-nation International Bureau of Exhibitions was expected last week to choose the jewel of the Adriatic over Toronto and Hannover as the Expo site...
Nonsense, retort the Expo's supporters, led by Italy's Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis, who is using his position to pressure some of Italy's allies into supporting the proposal when it comes to a vote. He and his fellow advocates, including his brother Cesare and the business consortium, argue that the fair would transform Venice into the "new capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious...
...warning chilled Japanese booksellers in Tokyo who last week began selling a translation of Rushdie's work. When Gianni Palma, who arranged the publication and promotion of the book, tried to speak at a press conference, he was attacked by a Pakistani...