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That's not entirely an accident, suggests economics professor Cersosimo. He says the Mezzogiorno has discerned "a tacit convenience to underdevelopment." Elected officials campaign on their ability to keep public resources flowing in - Calabria alone gets $95 million a year to fund the socially useful jobs program - and claim victory when their area continues to be classified as backward. That label qualifies the Mezzogiorno for $4.2 billion in European Union aid, as well as another $12.8 billion from Rome's coffers. "Politicians have an interest in maintaining the status quo," he says. "There is no clear road map for bringing...
Back in Amendolara, Melfi doesn't claim to have the magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
...42nd percentile in the listing of all public schools in the commonwealth, or 137 out of 321.” He also cited MCAS scores for 10th graders and SAT scores as areas that need improvement. “One also loses trust quickly in a man who claims that multiple prize winners and multiple Rhodes scholars have graduated from CRLS but cannot and will not document his claim,” he said. “CRLS needs structural change and it needs it now.” The school committee was also criticized by more than one speaker...
...similarly discounts other groups’ concerns, “We’re the ladies of the night conservation organization—people agree with us, they just don’t want to seen with us.” More important to him is the claim that his protest cost the Japanese whaling program $70 million, and caused it to kill half as many whales as it would have otherwise...
Last weekend, Sea Shepherd was again in the news, the Canadian Coast Guard alleging that the Farley Mowat had “grazed” one of its icebreakers. Watson is adamant that the Coast Guard actually rammed his vessel, and says he has videotape evidence to support the claim. Either way, the incident had the desired effect of putting Sea Shepherd back in the news. In some sense, that is a victory for violence over reason. But it may also represent the best hope for Canada’s seals...