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...film may be less comprehensible as an international release. One fact of which foreign audiences may not be aware is that most of the movie’s dialogue is in Neapolitan, not Italian. Less a dialect and more a distinct language with its own vocabulary and a noticeably harsher accent, the city’s linguistic diversity highlights a central division between wealthy and poor, Neapolitan and non-Neapolitan. This is especially important given that the main agent for change, the Italian government, has been unable to effectively combat crime or win allies in the extremely insular Neapolitan society...
...more vocal off the field, and she has a really good sense of the team pulse and how things are going,” Bock says. “I’m a little bit louder on the field. I’m a little bit harsher with the team, as far as yelling or executing things. We work really well together, and what one may lack, the other one makes up for in leadership skills.” But while the two differ in their approaches to the captain’s role, the senior duo ultimately represents...
...governor, have indicated that they will appeal the mandate, possibly to the Supreme Court, seemingly in contradiction to Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2006 declaration of a state of emergency because of risks found to be associated with severe overcrowding in state prisons. Overburdened prison facilities essentially hand inmates harsher sentences than they deserve, decreasing their likelihood of real rehabilitation and increasing the possibility that these men and women will continue to cycle through the system. While the state may have reason to object to the court order’s imposition of a numerical mandate on prison population reductions...
Although 2003 is not too far in the past, it is important to note that over the last six years the league has succeeded in cleaning up its reputation by instituting harsher penalties for substance users and more rigorous testing. Hopefully MLB will use this recent splash in the steroids mix as an impetus to intensify the campaign...
...still needs to define victory down. Afghanistan is bigger and more populous than Iraq, with harsher terrain and a literacy rate one-third as high. It has no real history of centralized government; a fictional border with Pakistan, which militants cross with ease; an economy based largely on drugs; and a leader who--although still popular in the U.S.--is widely considered a disaster at home...