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DIED. PETTER LINDSTROM, 93, Swedish surgeon divorced by Ingrid Bergman in 1950 during her scandalous affair with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, which was denounced from the U.S. Senate floor; in Sonoma, Calif...
That's what's facing Roberto Alomar, the Cleveland Indians second baseman who is widely considered one of the all-time great middle infielders. When the sun sets on his career, Alomar will most likely be remembered more for a regrettable - and highly regretted - 1996 spitting incident than for any of his on-the-field feats...
Unfortunately, again, premature and tragic deaths are not new to sports. On New Year's Eve 1972, in a visit to deliver disaster-relief supplies to his native Nicaragua, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash. Clemente had been named the World Series MVP the previous year and would become the first Hispanic player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame...
Next up is a cameo in Charlie's Angels, starring and produced by Green's real-life girlfriend Drew Barrymore. Deals are also set for him to remake Roberto Benigni's Italian comedy The Monster and to co-write an original script. Off-camera, Green is less frantic, more witty, but still weird. He expresses regret that doctors wouldn't allow him to take his excised testicle home. "I really did want to keep it," he says. "They told me they needed to do further testing, but I'm sure it will soon be a hot-ticket item on eBay...
...Internet business community believes the market will naturally reach down to include the middle class and some of those below, whether governments help or not. "The poor will have access," says Roberto Wilson, partner at the Rio-based private-equity firm CVC/Opportunity Equity Partners, because "the working poor consume." Many entrepreneurs and analysts point to the example of television in Brazil, where, despite extreme poverty, more than 80% of households own a set. "This is not a rich country, but things really penetrate," says Alvaro de Castro, director of business development at Web incubator Visualcom and author of two books...