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...wire off the mustard?" Matteo Luccio asks Drapeau. "He doesn't like mustard." Drapeau hands him a knife and a napkin...
...devastation left behind by the 1969 hurricane Camille: real estate. Arnie wants to put his few holdings, which include an island just offshore, into the hands of people who will restore the serenity of the past amid all the motels and waffle houses. This emphatically does not include Frank Matteo, a flashy young restaurateur with Mafia connections whom Arnie suspects (rightly) of seeking his island as a conduit for foreign narcotics. Matteo is both more and less than a customer, however. To a reformer like Arnie he is an irresistible candidate for moral redemption, and the way to reach...
...11th century Chinese emperor possessed a newly invented clock, which his people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived in Asia bearing a new Italian invention called a clock. The Chinese marveled at the thing...
...current buzz word used by Catholics for the process of adapting the Christian message to local traditions is "inculturation." The idea is not new. Four centuries ago, Father Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in China, tried to incorporate the Confucian reverence for ancestors into Catholic ritual. The Vatican quashed the experiment. Says one Catholic official in Rome who works with missionaries: "Inculturation is a difficult thing and sometimes I would say a dangerous thing. Leaving your own culture and adopting that of the people among whom you work may lead you to go too far, toward animism perhaps...
...vote, Illinois became a battleground. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne had flown to New York expecting to switch some 30 of her state's 163 Carter delegates (the largest Carter contingent on the floor) to the Kennedy position on the rule. Her aides applied heavy pressure, for example offering Donna Matteo, 25, a city job if she switched. "But I worked for Carter. I was elected by people who voted for Carter, and I'm going to vote for Carter," she replied...