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...both a perfectionist and a born showman, as his status as cultural icon was sealed by unprecedented duets with rock and pop music singers, from Bono to Stevie Wonder to Celine Dion. Some opera purists will never forgive the tenor for these Pavarotti and Friends performances, which he acknowledged in one of his final interviews last year with Italian journalist Ettore Mo. "There were polemics because I'd thrown myself into a completely different genre," Pavarotti noted. But in the same interview, just a few months after cancer surgery, Pavarotti was counting his blessings. "I am and have been...
...still "a country boy," and he played up his modest roots by spending his summers on home turf, swimming, riding horses and expertly whipping up pasta feasts. But his family home was now a 17th century mansion on 12 acres, and there was no disguising his status as an immensely wealthy international superstar. Eventually his prolonged globetrotting absences took a toll on family life. In 1996 he separated from the Modena girl he had married 35 years before, Adua Veroni, to be with his secretary, Nicoletta Mantovani, whom he married...
Geoffrey Tabin, an accomplished American ophthalmologist, sent me an e-mail recently reporting on the week he spent in a poor village in Ghana, in West Africa. "We examined 4,600 people and documented their visual status, refractive errors and any pathology or disease," he wrote. "We gave spectacles to all who needed glasses and gave away 500 pairs of reading glasses. My retinal partner and I performed 159 cataract surgeries. All of the patients were seen one week postoperatively. There were no infections or serious complications...
...country in the dead of night? The ex-dictator of Panama's defense attorneys on Wednesday morning filed an emergency motion to stay his extradition to France, citing plans to move the prisoner three days ahead of his scheduled release date. The general, who has Prisoner of War Status since the U.S. invasion of his country in late 1989, has been fighting the move, fearful that he will be tried as a common criminal by the French government...
...afternoon but ordered both the government and Noriega's legal team to present their arguments and evidence to him on Thursday morning. Hoeveler will review the arguments in his chambers. The habeas petition by Noriega's lawyers raised concerns that France may fail to accord Noriega prisoner of war status in accordance with the Geneva Convention. The motion also calls for the intervention of the International Committee of the Red Cross "to determine France's true intentions...