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...Under Secretary Gianni Letta, a veteran of thorny negotiations among political factions and labor unions, was chosen last week to end the ongoing stalemate at Alitalia. Italy 's national air carrier has faced a series of strikes (another 24-hour stoppage is planned for March 5) after chief executive Francesco Mengozzi announced a plan in October to cut 2,700 jobs over two years. Letta is expected to seek a temporary solution to avert mass protests ahead of June's European elections. Word that he was on the case, and that the board of the troubled national carrier was willing...
...DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, ubiquitous fashion photographer best known for 30 years' worth of provocative Cosmopolitan magazine covers; in New York City. During his teenage years in Manhattan, he served as an apprentice to photographers at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and was soon shooting photos for those and other prestige magazines. His work ranged from flower studies to portraits of such celebrities as Sting, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. In 1981 he was diagnosed with manic depression but credited his manic highs for much of his artistic creativity...
...DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, fashion photographer who could make plain women look beautiful and fashion models look like Cosmo girls; in New York City. Scavullo's work was published in Rolling Stone, TIME, Sports Illustrated and Harper's Bazaar, but he was best known for photographing more than 300 Cosmopolitan covers from 1965 to 1997 in which Scavullo's lights and lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine...
...small compared to the major networks, but they do contain a fabulous little secret: nearly half of the audience for GAY-TV is straight. "We do not want to create gay programs, but programs that come from a gay point of view," says the channel's director, Francesco Italia. "If we do something funny, everyone wants to laugh. If we talk about emotions, that's something everybody knows about. Some people may turn on GAY-TV and ask, 'Where are the homosexuals?' That's because they're used to seeing the images of gays on regular TV and they always...
...fish comes steaming out of the oven to rest with perfect levity on the tongue. For dessert, I go for the mini chocolate cake served warm with a soft center or a smooth lemon sorbet. By the end of the meal, you will have confirmed your response to Francesco's opening query: yes, I like fish?more than ever. $40-45 per person, Via P. Verri 11, tel: (39-06) 7004741, closed Sunday...