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...upheaval these days. The piazza that has been the center of Florentine life since before Medici times, the space chosen by Michelangelo for his exquisite statue David, has been ripped up and fenced in. The current David, a copy, stands forlornly in front of a partially scaffolded Palazzo Vecchio. Cosimo I, the young Medici ruler who sits mid- square atop his bronze horse, gazes down on an ugly, corrugated plastic roof covering a third of the square...
...procedures for outside funding. This review process should involve all those who take part in the Center's work and should culminate in a clear statement of policy. Lisa Anderson associate professor of government A. Tosun Aricanli assistant professor of economics Selma Botman research associate, CMES Mary Jo Del Vecchio Good lecturer on sociology Zachary Lockman assistant professor of history Afsaneh Najmabadi visiting lecturer on government Paula Sanders assistant professor of history
...Motor Co. beforehand and head of the World Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student on the Kent State campus in 1970. For years her wanderings and missteps made news. Now married, she works as a bus girl in a Las Vegas casino...
...stolen treasures, particularly those pilfered by the Nazis; in Florence. An agent of the underground Italian resistance during World War II, Siviero traced at least 2,000 works of art throughout the world in his lifetime, and saw that they were safely returned. Next year the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence will open a special museum with 200 pieces of Italian art, mostly paintings, that the relentless Siviero recovered after they vanished from the looted, private collections of Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring...
Under Del Vecchio's direction. HSA has continued to move in the direction of "business." It has been pared down from 35 different agencies to the current 11, allowing the group as a whole to operate more efficiently. And since the general manager's appointment. HSA has continually ended the year with a surplus--around $21,000 for the last fiscal year...