"The Olympic movement used to be about amateur sports, " Gardner told the Journal's Sara Germano.

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Sometimes a stroll to smiling Germano at the Portuguese deli, to pick up her papers, would shake the plot into place.

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And then there are Brazil's Gerdau brothers--Jorge, Klaus, Germano and Frederico.

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The prime mover of the Arte Povera movement was an Italian art historian named Germano Celant, who conceived Arte Povera in the service of an argument.

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