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...south, including the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra around Naples, the Mob is not just murderous, but also a major drag on Italy's economic development. A recent report by the Confesercenti small-business association estimated that organized crime accounts for 7% of Italy's GDP, a larger share than any corporate behemoth, even the energy giant ENI. The Sicilian Mob is one of Italy's original multinationals, having partnered with its Italo-American cousins and gangsters around the world to traffic drugs and weapons, launder money and promote other illegal cross-border business...
...know that. In what feels like a breathless crescendo, he launches his health-care manifesto. He suggests eliminating Medicare and Medicaid and using those funds to provide health-insurance vouchers for all. In his model, the more precarious your health, the larger the voucher, which you could use to purchase plans from private insurance providers...
...practical terms, the strike is about money: how much, if anything, writers get as the Internet and DVDs replace TV reruns, for which they get bigger residuals. But in a larger sense, the studios and writers are forcing a question that every other form of media is facing: How much is content worth in the digital...
...There is a larger problem with the conventional wisdom that Clinton has been too careful and calculating in this campaign. That charge is often expressed as a question about her "authenticity" - that foolish journalistic cliché meant to denote the appearance of informality and spontaneity. But authenticity is not the same as courage. You can fake authenticity. You can't fake courage. Clinton has always had a problem with authenticity. Her laugh, sometimes awkwardly manufactured for public use yet always delightfully raucous in private, is Exhibit A. But her plans on the big domestic-policy issues - health care and energy...
...order to counter the new evidence, Whiting said that the prosecution’s priority should be to keep the jury focused on the events of that night rather than on the larger picture, which is what the defense will be pushing...