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...athlete who admits having competed at the World Cup level while hung over can't be all that smart. In skiing, it takes a split second to fall and break your neck, and it's much easier for it to happen if you aren't completely sober. Enzo Concina Piacenza, Italy Republican Reform "Can This Elephant Be Cleaned Up?" reported on the influence-peddling scandal in Washington involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff and members of Congress [Jan. 23]. It's a sad point in U.S. history when a lobbyist's extensive ties become equivalent to political clout. Even with the exposure...
...other often. But this time, Signorini, once a rugged defender, had to strain just to speak. "I'm not well," he told his friend. An intense, unfamiliar pain was spreading through his back. The doctors were worried. He was scared. Collovati - currently general manager of the northern Italian squad Piacenza - shakes his head recalling that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just a week before. Everything had been fine." Not long after, the diagnosis was conclusive: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal...
...more stuffed than after a Neapolitan seafood dinner. Bologna is the capital of the fertile, food-producing region of Emilia-Romagna, and plucks the choice offerings from surrounding cities and small towns for its restaurants and open-air markets - from Modena's balsamic vinegar to Parma's prosciutto to Piacenza's soft pork sausage. While absorbing the best of the rest, Bologna is considered the birthplace of several staple products and inimitable dishes. The Bolognese sauce (other Italians call it ragù) is chopped beef or veal with just a light touch of tomato sauce, a bit of pancetta, onion...
...Nino Cerruti. It took the considerable persuasive powers of Sergio Galeotti, then 25 and a draftsman in a leading Milan architectural firm, to lure Armani from the kind of early middle-aged complacency he was slipping into. Armani, the second of three children of a transport-company manager in Piacenza, 40 miles southeast of Milan, grew up during World War II and remembers waking up screaming from nightmares about air raids. A childhood like that requires a heavy investment in security, which his parents Ugo and Maria did their best to provide...
Giorgio's grandfather Lodovico had a shop in Piacenza where, his grandson recalls, "he made wigs in the 19th century style, many for the local theater. He took me backstage with him. I was fascinated." Giorgio's parents diverted him from dreams of the lively arts and into medical school, which he endured for three years before surrendering to the inevitable military service and a three-year hitch as a medical assistant. Back in civvies in 1954, he took a job, "almost by accident," with La Rinascente, one of Italy's largest department-store chains. He helped...