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...activities of the Fine Arts Administration can stimulate some Italian critics to unusual fury. Journalist Lamberti Sorrentino calls it "the most anachronistic, insensate, absurd sector of the Italian state apparatus." But the real malaise lies deeper, and it is only visible to those who-following the lead of conservation groups like Italia Nostra and the recently formed Firenze Viva-are ready to see the problem holistically, as a menace to the balance of interlocked, mutually supporting cultural and natural systems. The fresco is to the wall as the wall is to the building, the building to the piazza, the piazza...
...Even a prosecutor acting in the best of faith cannot be certain that somewhere in the depths of his investigative apparatus, often including hundreds of employees, there was not some prohibited use of the compelled testimony...
...When, and How--were useless. Bill McCarthy, who managed the news operation, was fond of pointing out to his more heady reporters that "this is a newspaper story you're writing, not a thesis." A long six-part series I wrote once on defects in Boston's tax collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned his stomach. He went into a long speech about writing for the man who reads the paper. It was not unlike the speech Jimmy Breslin (another Herald Traveler alumnus) gave...
...bureau were divorced from politics and the civil service. He established an absolute authority at the beginning. He demanded that his agents have either a law or an accounting degree, resisted any and all political pressures. Hoover turned the bureau into the world's most efficient crime-fighting apparatus, with an elaborate fingerprint library and crime laboratory. In 1930, the FBI became the clearinghouse for national crime statistics, reported by state and local authorities...
...companies own 99% of Canada's oil refineries, 85% of its primary metal smelters, 84% of its rubber factories, 78% of its chemical industry, 77% of its electrical-apparatus business and 73% of the transportation-equipment industry-indeed, 90% of all Canadian plants that employ 5,000 or more workers. Many a Canadian suburbanite begins his day by brushing his teeth with Crest, grabbing a cup of Maxwell House instant coffee, hopping into a Mustang and heading for work at, say, Du Pont of Canada...