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...have [grown] up in the inner city, [or have a] going-to-a-public-school perspective, so he addresses issues from a unique position,” he said. Sen said his son started his career playing classical music on his recorder. And the rapper, who is half-Italian, has experimented with classical South Indian music, jazz, blues, and eventually hip-hop, he added. “Quite a lot of migration—but I like that,” Sen said. “I have always moved my area of work from one field to another...
...also 18% unemployment. Widely respected abroad, Balcerowicz has stood up for the independence of the central bank and also for Europe-wide merger rules. So when he opposed what he saw as an attempt by the ruling party to block a planned merger of Polish branches of the Italian banking giant UniCredit earlier this year, he was excoriated. President Kaczynski said he would not renew Balcerowicz's appointment. Lepper called for his removal. Last month, the parliament established a commission to probe the bank's role in 17 years of privatization. "It's a sort of harassment, a brutal infringement...
...ITALIAN JUDICIARY...
...erupted. When Liggio died in prison in 1993, Riina took over as top boss, with Provenzano as his No. 2. Riina was captured the same year and remains behind bars. Provenzano transformed the Mafia into a less violent, more economically efficient machine after Riina's bloody war with the Italian state in the 1980s and early 1990s put the squeeze on La Cosa Nostra...
Giuseppe Lumia, a member of the Italian Parliament's anti-Mafia commission, says the arrest is ultimately a chance to get closer to the core of Italy's organized-crime problem. "We need to take it to the next step, to break the Mafia's bonds with elements of the political and economic system," he says. But the arrest can also cut another way. Remember what Provenzano said? "You have no idea what you've done." Lumia is worried that those words may signal a bloody battle for succession...