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Buscetta's revelations offered authorities in both the U.S. and Italy a deeper understanding of the ties between the New York and Sicilian Mobs. They challenge the widely held view of the Mafia as a centrally organized entity with branches in the U.S. and Sicily. Instead, they depict it as a looser network of groups in Sicily, the U.S. and elsewhere, linked by a combination of business, personal and family connections. Buscetta's disclosures, in fact, confirmed what investigators had first suspected several years ago, that there are really two Mafia groups working in the U.S.: one composed...
Noting that the Justices have always objected to being called secretive, Thomas remembers, "One of them, Byron White, once told me, 'We're the only branch of Government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision...
...ones are still unresolved, like the conflict between Congress and the Executive over which branch has the power to commit U.S. troops abroad. But no matter how technical or tortuous the case before them, the Justices can put their decision to the tests posed by Warren: "Is it fair? Is it right...
...judicial restraint. For example, when the appeals court last year ordered the Food and Drug Administration to examine evidence that drugs used to execute prisoners by "lethal injection" can cause torturous death, Scalia dissented, calling the decision "a clear intrusion upon the powers that belong to Congress, the Executive Branch and to the states." A Roman Catholic, Scalia is personally opposed to abortion. Both Scalia, who taught at the University of Chicago, and Bork, who went there as a student, are influenced by the "Chicago School" view that the Government should not hamper the free market...
Rolm's specialty is a type of electronic switching system known as a PBX (for private branch exchange). Used primarily in large offices, PBXs relay calls between telephones and data between computers. For more than a decade, IBM has tried unsuccessfully to develop a market-winning PBX. By buying Rolm, IBM is challenging the telecommunications supremacy of AT&T, the largest manufacturer of PBXs. This year AT&T invaded IBM's domain by introducing personal computers and minicomputers...