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...background—in Italian of course—and as I read the names chiseled into the tomb’s façades, Pavarotti sung a silent opera in my head. I roamed the aisles wondering what the hell we were doing here, until I turned a corner and there they were. Stack after stack of Gilbertis: Michele, Giacomo, Francesco, Immacolota…managia! (“damn”), In this tiny graveyard on a hilltop in Calabria where the wind whispers in Italian, was our family. We had of yet to find Iacurso...
...arrest rates for murder have gone from 80% and 90% to half that. Lost in an unwinnable drug war, a new generation of law officers is no longer capable of investigating crime properly, having learned only to make court pay by grabbing cheap, meaningless drug arrests off the nearest corner...
...stark, unfinished office space in a gritty corner of Philadelphia along the Delaware River, Hillary Clinton supporters gathered last Sunday to plan a campaign that wasn't supposed to happen. "We cannot take anything, any area, any voter for granted," the city's newly elected mayor, Michael Nutter, told the crowd of perhaps 150. The race, he said, will be like this year's Super Bowl, in which the previously undefeated New England Patriots unexpectedly fell to the underdog New York Giants. And he means for the Pennsylvania's Clinton campaign to be the Giants. "We have our work...
...long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, the Evil Empire, known to some as Qdoba, opened shop on the corner of Linden Street and Massachusetts Avenue. This “fresh-Mex” franchise stepped into a market where local spots such as Felipe’s and Pinocchio’s have long been dominant...
...penalties tired out the Crimson defense. Despite Harvard killing all three penalties, Colgate notched its first goal as Rogers left the box at 14:15.In transition, Raiders pivot Ethan Cox skated down the right side and launched a shot from inside the right faceoff circle into the top-left corner of the net past Richter’s blocker to give Colgate a 1-0 lead.“I don’t think we played very well in the first period,” Donato said. “We sat back on our heels a little bit?...