He works through an array of ball-machine drills and hitting patterns as Luciani paces nearby.

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In 1978, Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul I.

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The youngest Neff, 5-year-old Isabella, recently hit her first ball "She knocked the glasses off my face, " Luciani said and will start training with him soon.

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Luciani teaches Adam, Adam's 10-year-old sister, Katarina, and Lancelot full-time, and several others part-time, with the help of his stepdaughter, Emily Mowery, a former player at the University of Miami.

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According to Pascal Luciani, the technical adviser to the French Environment Minister, results are encouraging but could have been achieved earlier if the clean-up operation had not been hindered by the bombing.

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Luciani likes to shout.

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