Word: italian
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...Dell was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to death. In his 11 years on death row, supporters managed to persuade institutions as far afield as the Italian Parliament and the Pope to raise doubts about his guilt. They pointed to evidence that the crucial blood test may have been botched and that O'Dell may have been bloodied, as he claimed, in a brawl elsewhere. But prosecutors insisted the case against him was solid, and after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last appeal by a 5-to-4 vote in July 1997, O'Dell was executed...
...image remains badly soiled by such disclosures, which also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations ?- and the stonewalling that came between facts and reparations ?- cost them the 2006 Winter Olympics, which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years, the world?s most discreet bankers have blown the whistle on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko...
...King went on tour, she packed a poncho and jumped on a bus. Today singers won't hit the road without consulting pyrotechnic experts and an army of stylists. When WHITNEY HOUSTON kicks off her tour June 22, she'll bring trunk loads of costumes created for her by Italian designers Dolce and Gabbana. For each song, there is a fashion: gowns for ballads and edgy sportswear for up-tempo numbers. Alas, Whitney sings no zydeco...
...that creep Verger? For long, long stretches in the middle of the novel, Harris himself seems to be of two minds on that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there and set a trap that he cannot possibly escape. Guess what happens...
...sign that his staunch refusal to compromise is turning First World Catholics into something of a spectator church, professing faith but ignoring doctrine. Such developments lead to dilution, and dilution to factions. What factions so often lead to may remind papal historians that the last non-Italian pope was the first to confront the effects of Martin Luther...