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...homes known as Casa Pia. Also placed in preventive detention was Jorge Ritto, a former ambassador to South Africa, along with a doctor, a lawyer and a TV anchorman. The arrests came after police used controversial powers to tap the cellular phones of prominent opposition politicians, including Pedroso's mentor, Socialist leader Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, and Antonio Costa, head of the party's parliamentary delegation. Under Portuguese law, the police are allowed to listen in on anyone's phone conversations with special judicial permission, if they believe doing so will help solve a serious crime. The Socialists smell a witch...
...coaches talk of how when Annika was a teen, other girls would practice one hour after a round and she would put in three; or the time Annika had the flu, threw up on the course and still won. Sorenstam's strength is "her intrinsic motivation," says coach and mentor Pia Nilsson. "Her ability to look honestly at what she can improve is absolutely the best." The evidence: her ripped physique--building more strength has helped her add more than 20 yds. to her drive--and a better short game, which have turned her from a rising star into...
...client list is a closely-guarded secret, bar one: Wexner is a long-time client. He is also Epstein’s mentor...
...privilege and an honor to play for Carole for four years,” said Maggie Vaughan ’90, the captain of Harvard’s national championship team. “And it’s continued to be an honor to count her as a mentor and a friend...
...returned to his trademark Leica cameras for a couple of assignments - his 1994 portrait of France's beloved priest of the poor Abbé Pierre is in the retrospective - but he essentially retired from his peripatetic photographic career nearly 30 years ago. He stopped, he said, when a longtime mentor, the Greek-born critic and art publisher Teriade, told him that he had gone as far as he could go in photography, and he agreed: "I knew I had nothing more to say. I felt it." Since then, he has devoted his time to painting and drawing, working on life...