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...Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place.? In 1983, the third year of the Razzies, the Worst Actress and Actor booby-prizes went to Pia Zadora for ?The Butterfly? and, for ?Inchon? ... guess ... Laurence Olivier...
...Extremes Painful Progress PORTUGAL Prosecutors brought formal charges against 10 high-profile suspects held in preventive custody since early 2003 in connection with a long-running pedophile scandal. Those indicted on child sex-abuse charges include a former chauffeur and handyman; a former director at the state-run Casa Pia children...
...Officers went to the Holyoke Arcade on a report of disorderly conduct. 57-year-old Pia N. Setti, of Watertown, was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct...
...Neill Marques says, "Rich and powerful people have been detained. It makes me proud to be a lawyer." Pedroso's was one of several high-profile arrests after an interminable, eight-month police investigation into a pedophile network operating in state-run children's 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...
...never participated in any act of pedophilia or any similar act," he told a press conference shortly before his arrest, which came after parliament lifted his immunity at his own request. As Secretary of State for Labor and Training from 1999 to 2001, Pedroso was responsible for the Casa Pia homes, which care for some 4,600 children at 10 centers around Portugal. He is suspected of 15 cases of sexual violence against minors, which allegedly took place between 1999 and 2000. Ritto, 67, who retired last year, also denied allegations of abusing children and accused the media of conducting...