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...sending his wife and two sons back to his native town of Corleone in 1992, his communication with them is also limited to pizzini. Investigators say that Provenzano's sons - one a university student, the other the proprietor of a Corleone dry cleaners - have recently grown disenchanted with their absent father's career choice. The elder Provenzano also has an apparent religious streak. In one late 2001 note, a photocopy of which was obtained by Time, Provenzano finalizes an underling's repayment of a small debt and then signs off with: "God bless and protect you!" Since Provenzano disappeared...
...risks fatally undermining its prospects for establishing legitimacy among Iraq's majority community. Even though the Sadrists have provoked the confrontation, the prevailing animosity towards the U.S. forces among ordinary Shiites will likely play to Moqtada's advantage in his political challenge to the Allawi government. Particularly with Sistani absent to restrain Sadr and other moderate Shiites questioning U.S. tactics, it's a safe bet that the U.S. - and its Iraqi prot?g?, Allawi - will be blamed for turning Najaf into a bloodbath...
...Iraq, and likely to be as hostile, if not more so to foreign occupation. The U.S. military is already stretched to its limits by its commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an attack on Iran would almost certainly spark a mass Shiite uprising against the U.S. in Iraq. Absent options for changing the regime in Tehran by force, they argue, the U.S. needs to expand efforts to win cooperation in areas of mutual concern...
...with a modeling contract, has had to expend much valuable energy denying that she's the new Anna Kournikova, an adjectivally similar countrywoman who won hearts but no titles. "Anna isn't in the picture anymore," Sharapova recently announced. "It's Maria time now." True and true. With Kournikova absent and fighting retirement, the less flamboyant, more focused Sharapova, 17, trounced Serena Williams, 6-1, 6-4, Saturday to become Wimbledon's third youngest women's champion ever and the first non-Williams winner in five years...
...Craft has been absent from the diet for so long, it feels new to a certain generation of designers," says Murray Moss, owner of Moss, a popular New York City design store. "Thirteen years ago, injected molded plastics were the fascination. But that has kind of played itself out. Now wood, paper and ceramic feel...