Word: gino
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...Gino Strada is bracing for a busy winter in Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley. The Italian surgeon runs Emergency, which operates the only fully equipped hospital in the region dominated by the Northern Alliance. As part of his group's aid work, the Milan native, 53, recently brought the first electric lights to the village of Anaba. But now he is preparing for war, trying to keep the facility's 70 beds clear for the wounded, who have already begun showing up at Emergency's six first-aid posts on the front line...
...PUZO PLUMMETS: Mario Puzo died in 1999, but his last novel is being published now. "The Family," which will be published by ReganBooks on October 2, was finished by Carol Gino, Puzo?s longtime companion. Kirkus winces. "The old, black magic just isn?t here. ?The Family? is Godfather Lite. Eminently skippable." But Judith Regan, with a first printing of 250,000, is betting that most people don?t read Kirkus...
...Miami, I would always play backyard football with my friends and the neighborhood kids. The quarterback we imitated most was always a toss-up between Dan Marino and Gino Torretta (you know, the 1992 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Miami and perhaps one of the best collegiate quarterbacks of the past decade...
With a little under two minutes left to play in Saturday's game, No. 8 Miami was trailing No. 1 FSU, 24-20. UM quarterback Ken Dorsey calmly marched his team from its own 32-yard line down the length of the field ala Gino Torretta. Dorsey capped the drive with a 13-yard TD pass to tight end Jeremy Shockey with 46 seconds left...