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Hewlett Packard Project Manager Joseph J. Raffa, who is setting up the computer system, said he was also attracted by the idea of a house computer center...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Dunster Inaugurates Computer Center | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...Liem is trying to bring education back to the houses," said Raffa, who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1988. "This is really unique, an experiment taking place in a house...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Dunster Inaugurates Computer Center | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

During his senior year in college, Cuomo shyly introduced himself to a popular, curly-haired girl named Matilda Raffa. She remembers him as serious and religious, the kind of boy, her mother told her, who would never hurt her. Andrew Cuomo recalls how when he first started dating, his father told him not to forget that the girl he was taking out that night was somebody's sister. When Cuomo proposed to Matilda, he was in his first year of law school; she remembers that he gave her a lecture on the Catholic Church's teaching about birth control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Make of Mario | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...space he defines with whipping spins, sudden leaps followed by trancelike stillness-comes a very young woman in red (Deirdre Carberry) to be partnered through soupy Glazounov waltz tunes. That is no easy job, since this muse is coltish and blithely selfabsorbed. Three more young women (Elaine Kudo, Nancy Raffa, Amanda McKerrow), wearing costumes that suggest old-fashioned pinafores, glide in and out. At the end, his red-geranium partner's having vanished, Baryshnikov is hypnotized by the retreating figure of McKerrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Adding Some Sizzle at A.B.T. | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Raffa dutifully paid off the first three installments adding up to $1,100, then reneged on the final payment. Desperate for the money, Marino went to his friend's apartment and demanded the last $500. Raffa refused, and the two men got into a slugging, furniture-throwing fight. Finally Raffa grabbed a pistol and shot Marino three times in the chest. Marino died on the way to the hospital, and soon afterward, Raffa surrendered to the police. Perplexed as to how to enter Marino's death on the police blotter, Reggio Calabria's cops finally settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Final Payment | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

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