Word: speranza
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...there like presents," says Valletta. When a Camorra war is on, the factions "start counting the dead, and looking for anyone to kill from the other side - brothers, cousins, girlfriends. It's an escalation that's hard to stop." Father Stefano Salviuci of the rectory of Santa Maria della Speranza in Scampia says authorities can't blame people for being scared. "No one is called to be a hero," he says. "The residents here don't feel protected." One man who's tried to fight back is Antonio Bassolino, Governor of the Campania region. When he was mayor of Naples...
Well, unfortunately, I was not able to go out and experience life as a goddess, or explore the underworld to get a “feel” for what [the goddess, my character in L’Orfeo] Speranza must have really felt. Preparation for this role ultimately involved educating myself on the particular style of music. I knew shamefully little going into this project, but to be able to perform this type of music, I really had to work to grasp the method behind it (not that I am claiming to have become an expert...
...press release from the American Heart Association meeting, lead author Dr. Speranza Rubatu, from the Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology at La Sapienza University, Rome, and Instituto Neurologico Mediterraneo, Neuromed, at Pozzilli, Italy, says, "We believe that this is an important finding toward the development of a more comprehensive way of assessing a person's overall risk of developing a stroke. The identification of genes and their molecular variants that contribute to strokes help us diagnose the risk earlier and suggest lifestyle modifications or develop new medicines to reduce the overall risk of stroke...
...youngest victim of the war, Matteo Speranza, 18, gunned down on Dec. 8 in the Brooklyn bagel shop where he worked, was widely reported to be the first innocent bystander to die. But government officials tell TIME that the dead teen has since become a suspect in a homicide that may or may not be Mob connected. After Speranza's death, things were eerily quiet until last week, when a 62-year-old Colombo captain named Nicholas (Nicky Black) Grancio became the highest-ranking rubout of all. Grancio, whom sources describe as a "peacemaker," was whacked while sitting...
...have a fight on our hands," Elisa M. Speranza, news editor of The Heights, said yesterday, adding that the college misinterpreted many of the students' demands. "We never said we wanted names," she said...