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...patient waits for a hospital bed. "You can queue up and wait to die," says Ferrarotti, "or you can drop 400,000 lire (($325)) up front to ensure yourself a place." A payoff helps to get things done. In a new study, Professor Franco Cazzola of the University of Catania estimates that the kickback industry, the entrenched system of institutionalized bribery, amounts to 3.3 trillion lire ($2.7 billion) a year. One Turin industrialist admits that he does not want his son to follow in his footsteps as head of a corporation. "He's not the kind of kid who could...
...10th century Arabic term meaning sanctuary. A thousand years later, the word is dark with irony. Founded to fight foreign oppressors, the organization has come to include the island's most terrible despots. Their fingers can be found in every business and social institution from Palermo to Catania, their hands behind countless murders. Puzo offers swatches of sad history and exotic sociology. Mussolini nearly wiped out the Mafia, but the U.S. Army ensured its comeback when it unlocked Fascist prisons. Kidnaping is a cottage industry, monks fake relics, and omertà, the code of silence, is so pervasive that...
...North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. The next night Wallace's scheduled interview with Barbara Bush, the Vice President's wife, was truncated to two questions. But he had good luck as well: he had perhaps the clearest line to the convention's instant media celebrity, Susan Catania, an Illinois delegate who was clamored after because she had decided not to vote to renominate Reagan. Wallace covered her a decade ago, when she was a state legislator and he a local TV reporter in Chicago...
...reporters prepared copiously for floor assignments. This time, most of them found little need to scan the arcane computerized data, little chance to display erudition. Indeed, the interview choices seemed to be so obvious that on several occasions network crews were lined up three deep alongside such figures as Catania or President Reagan's Campaign Consultant Drew Lewis, turning the usual traffic jam in the aisles into human gridlock. Summed up Wallace: "There were two clear advantages to this assignment. One was that the layers of buffer between reporters and politicians were gone; they were all right there...
While in office, Catania backed reforms enabling pregnant women to collect unemployment benefits, strengthened child support laws and shocked the Illinois legislature by breast-feeding her baby between legislative votes...