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...earlier this month, Katzen lamented the notion that nutrition and satisfaction are mutually exclusive. “Diets are all too often about subtraction,” she said. “Atkins? No carbohydrates. Vegetarianism? No meat. This approach is where we really get in trouble. A traditional Italian would never think that way.”This reductionist approach has reached new extremes. Over-obsession with calorie counts and micronutrient contents—exactly what HUDS is trying to avoid by putting away the placards, is itself a disease, orthorexia. Akin to obsessive-compulsive disorder, orthorexia (meaning literally...
...really important aspect of the opera’s mission to make the genre available to people who might not have very much experience with opera at all. All productions are in English so people who show up can understand them without having done preparatory work in Italian. Acting as a director rather than a producer (a role he filled last year), Spellberg says he enjoyed incorporating his own ideas into the production. Spellberg: It’s a more fun job than producing. It is more daunting but more interesting—you have more agency over the show...
...operation took place in two countries, netting nearly 80 alleged mobsters in New York and Sicily. Spanning the Atlantic, the joint FBI-Italian police action was dubbed the "Old Bridge." But the name isn't simply a bit of bureaucratic poetry: it is a reference to the conclusion of a brutal gang war that saw the losers flee to America two decades ago to avoid extermination. And now, just when some of the exiles thought it was safe to go back across the water, the authorities have swept them...
Meanwhile, drug trafficking and international ties have been expanded by other Italian crime syndicates, notably the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra in the Naples area. At the same time, however, the Cosa Nostra was assaulted again and again by major Italian police crackdowns in the 1990s. Police believe that Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Provenzano's successor as Boss of Bosses, was trying to revive the Sicilian mob's fortunes by linking back up with American mobsters through the old Inzerillo connection. Lo Piccolo's arrest in November is believed to have brought more of the "Old Bridge" operation to light...
...around Palermo. Gambino, Genovese and Bonanno family members were also taken into custody in the investigation, which includes charges of murder, extortion, embezzlement and drug trafficking. Alleged Gambino hitman Charles Carneglia, who was arrested in the round-up, is charged with five murders dating to 1976, said U.S. authorities. Italian police allege that a key member of the network was Frank Cali, an American son of Sicily natives who Italian papers say was married to an Inzerillo daughter. Also arrested on Thursday in New York, he is suspected of being a transatlantic conduit for laundering money through construction contracts...