Word: italianize
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DIED. Maurizio Vitale, 41, Italian clothing magnate, who outraged the Vatican in the early 1970s by pairing bulging buttocks and parodies of Christian teachings in ads for his Jesus Jeans; of AIDS; in Turin, Italy. Never publicity shy, Vitale followed up a $100 million 1979 jeans-and-jacket sale to the Soviet Union by becoming official supplier of off-track uniforms to the 1984 U.S. Olympic team...
...rest of the U.S. is the rest of the U.S. That's the second part that's called the expansion-team U.S. -- where we stand today. The way you can tell the difference is that the old U.S. still has regular European ethnic neighborhoods, and in an Italian restaurant in the ancien U.S., the waiters have names like Sal and Vinnie. But if you go to a restaurant that's an Italian restaurant and the waiter's name is Dwayne, you're in the expansion- team...
...Born on June 8, 1966, to Japanese parents who met as students at the University of Pennsylvania, Ueno has been wowing her teachers and fellow students since grammar school. In sixth grade she began studying French, the first of five languages she has mastered, including Latin, German, Japanese and Italian. In the tenth grade as a student at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, N.Y., at the instigation of her history teacher, she completed, in addition to her regular course work, three long-term projects, research papers on the origins of the French-Revolution, the Industrial Revolution and the writings...
...Romance Languages Jean Marie Apostolides came to Harvard from Stanford University six years ago as an asscoiate professor. Apostolides received tenure two years later, but this year he announced he will return to Stanford to accept a lifetime post and possibly the chairmanship of that school's French and Italian Department. Apostolides's departure leaves the department without a scholar of French literature who is capable of placing literary texts in a cultural context...
According to Stanford's French and Italian Chairman Alphonse Juilland, Apoistolides will send Stanford into the first tier of French departments in the country. Juilland adds that he does not think Harvard...