Word: rizzo
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...semi-nomadic tribe in Morocco. Strava is one of the six seniors who received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship for a year of post-graduate exploration of another culture. The six senior recipients, chosen from among 87 applicants, include Strava, Lauren E. Brants, Wilmarie Cidre, Nicholas A. Rizzo, Nora A. Sluzas, and Brittan Smith.Each recipient will receive $18,000 to travel abroad to a country of his or her choice. The six will be dispersed across Africa, Asia, and South America, using the year to learn about a foreign culture and self-reflect.WANDERING THE DESERTStrava, an anthropology concentrator, will live...
...white-sanded littoral paradise of a thousand movies but a grungy, rock-strewn place. A municipal storm drain releases onto the main part of the beach, and a sign warns that the water issuing from it may be unhealthy. The ugly concrete drain structure is maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon as you sit; if you let them, they'll crawl right up your leg. At the press conference on Sunday, Solana Beach...
Political organizers and labor officials from the area attended Galluccio’s victory party in droves, including President of Massachusetts AFL-CIO Bob J. Haynes, Worcester Sheriff Guy W. Glodis, and Revere City Councillor Dan Rizzo...
Thomas C. Rizzo Jr., LARGO...
Bolstering that impression, a new best-selling book, La Casta (The Caste) by journalists Sergio Rizzo and Gian Antonio Stella, details how Italy's politicians have used their institutional muscle to pile up a glut of privileges. They enjoy the highest rate of chauffeured cars among European governments, the President's headquarters cost four times as much to maintain as Buckingham Palace, and there have even been indignant demands for better gelato at the Parliament cafeteria. Adding to the public's sense that politicians are not to be trusted, 16 of the Italian Parliament's 630 members are convicted felons...