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...What They're Bailing Out in Italy: In tough economic times, nations have to set financial priorities: infrastructure, jobs ... dairy products? According to the Wall Street Journal, the Italian government is putting up $65 million to purchase 200,000 wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano cheese to donate to charity. With hundreds of small cheesemakers in northern Italy losing money, "there was a need for market intervention, just as there was for banks," said Italy's minister of agriculture...
...TIME once described a TV character from the '70s as 'a human oil slick.' Who was that character?" The Fonz? Vinnie Barbarino? Nope. The slickster was J.R. Ewing of Dallas, as depicted in a 1980 cover story. Another recalled a photograph in TIME of two Peruvian surgeons, Drs. Francisco Grana Reyes and Esteban Rocca. "The content of the story," said the reader, "was about a modern-day brain operation using ancient tools from the Mayans." Did we run that? Yes, indeed...
...part film aired to great acclaim by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992, then shown to further hosannas last summer in a Manhattan movie house-is surely the most compelling and edifying horror movie of the decade. It is written (by Des Walsh, John N. Smith and Sam Grana), directed (by Smith) and acted with a dreadful delicacy that subtly exposes both the sickness of the abusers and the beauty of the abused. But when the film plays next Sunday and Monday on cable's A&E network, that extraordinary scene between Lavin and Kevin will have been trimmed...
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...teams were blessed with more and more All-Ivy selections each season. There were runners like Bill Grana, Bobby Leo, Vic Gatto, and Ray Hornblower: defense-men like Don Chiofaro, Dave Poe, John Tyson, John Hoffman, and John Emery...