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...July by planting a field of more than 3,500 flags - one for each of the American troops killed in Iraq- the elements began to take a toll. The baking sun and sudden storms of a Great Plains summer left the little flagsticks warped and broken and the fabric bleached and torn...
Taken together, these arrests deal a major blow to the Mafia. But this hydra-like organization, also known as Cosa Nostra (Our Thing), is so deeply woven into the fabric of Sicilian society that the Italian state is far from claiming final victory. "Cosa Nostra is built on a capacity to adapt to the time and situation, to camouflage itself and raise its head only when necessary," says a senior Palermo-based investigator who worked on the Lo Piccolo case. Lo Piccolo's takedown shuffles the deck in the organization, but hardly eradicates...
...It’s a travesty,” Adaner Usmani ’08 said. “[Musharraf] has completely eroded Pakistan’s democratic fabric...It’s a very, very sad development...
...postal worker and his mother an elementary-school teacher. After college at Catholic University of America, he spent two crucial years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. What impressed him there most was not the tribal art but the well-made things of everyday life: baskets, boats, woven fabric. From there he moved to Sweden for two years to study printmaking and to experiment on his own with sculpture. "That's where it became pretty clear to me," he says. "I was more interested in making things than in making images of things...
...each economy produces what it does best and then trades with other economies for their goods and services, everyone's wealth goes up. Trade is about specialization. But the biggest threat to expanding trade today is that the rich industrial nations continue to block the food and fabric exports that are the natural specialty of poorer developing countries...