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...Italy. His surname derived from Telese -- from a Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag...
...Life in Maida could be oppressive, governed as it was not only by absentee landlords and corrupt bureaucrats in distant Naples but also by unwritten codes, rituals and time-honored superstitions. Italian peasants, Talese notes, are profoundly (and no doubt justifiably) pessimistic; at times of trouble, the people of Maida would turn for succor to a favorite saint, Francis of Paola, whose decorated statue was paraded through the village on the shoulders of its men on great feast days. It is not surprising that some of Maida's sons were tempted by the riches and freedom that exile offered, leaving...
...want to bridge the gap between our salaries and those of on-campus maintenance workers, we want to remedy salary inequities within our unit, and we want to resolve the inequalities between white and minority employees," said Maida Rosenstein, head of the Clerical Workers Union...
...university attempted to use long legal delays knowing that unions want to solve problems quickly," says Maida Rosenstein, an organizer for Columbia's union District 65 and a former employee there. "Delays are discouraging. There's a danger that the union's momentum will drop...
...From the very beginning we took the dual approach of negotiating as hard as we could while preparing for a strike," said Maida Rosenstein, Columbia University organizer of District...