Guccione has, in fact, consorted with Ann Coulter (he dated the tart-tongued pundit before meeting his present girlfriend, playwright Liza Lentini).

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Seeking to bolster their theory of the crime, prosecutors turned to John Lentini, the fire expert, and John DeHaan, another leading investigator and textbook author.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

Nearly two years later, the Innocence Project commissioned Lentini and three other top fire investigators to conduct an independent review of the arson evidence in the Willingham case.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

But Lentini stumbled upon what could be a solution for anyone worried about how he or she will be branded after death: Some had written their own obituaries.

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In the football transfer case, Mr Berlusconi - owner and president of AC Milan - was charged with falsifying accounts to conceal illegal payments allegedly made by the club during its 1992 purchase of Gigi Lentini from the Torino club in Turin.

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Lines like that led one reader of The Day, Nina Lentini, to collect her favorites on her blog Life Without End, an endearing compendium of the way survivors thought people might have wanted to be branded, or just the way they wanted to brand themselves.

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