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...particular, sophomore Lauren Ianni has been crucial for the Crimson, proving to be an invaluable scout team player...
...welcomed ten new players, including nine freshmen and former Crimson tennis player Catriona Stewart, and has returned ten players from last season. Six of those freshmen—Clark, Doherty, Kathryn Sall, Tyler Petropolous, Chelsey Bowman, and Ellen Gleason—started in their collegiate debut, and Lauren Ianni also saw playing time. “We feel prepared coming into the season,” said Flood. “We had a such good season last year, and now we can build off of that.” Harvard has its first home game of the season against...
This view of organized crime has been accepted rather generally. In 1971, however, Francis A.J. Ianni challenged this conception in "A Family Business," a study of an organized crime "family" in New York City's Little Italy. Ianni asserts that criminal syndicates should be viewed as social and kinship organizations, rather than formal ones. He viewed Italian-American criminal syndicates as a form of social organization patterned by tradition and responsive to the Italian-American urban culture. As persisting social systems, Ianni notes, organized crime syndicates must function as integral parts of the surrounding society. Thus Ianni looked at organized...
Father Louis Gigante, a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Politics this week, grew up in the area Ianni wrote about. He also disputes the traditional view that organized crime is a tightly disciplined structure dedicated to evil. As an example of the beneficial effects of organized crime, Father Gigante has said that the only way his father could get money to pay for an operation was to go to a loan shark...
THERE IS ONE MAIN problem with the Gigante and Ianni accounts of the role of organized crime in Italian communities. In his book, Ianni never discussed narcotics trafficking. Similarly both Father Gigante and the Italian American Civil Rights League deny that organized crime as they know it is involved with drugs. According to Father Gigante, any drug trafficking that is done by Italians is done separately from the traditional crime "family" structure...