Word: maurizio
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...boringly cautious type who vows to keep the same job and make no major changes except for longer vacations; and the dope who buys everything in sight and has a line of bill collectors at his door inside of a year. But seldom do you hear about winners like Maurizio Badolato, who turn their good fortune into harder work, longer hours and more stress. Last week I went to Boston to find out how this poor guy could get it so wrong...
...Maurizio, who landed from Italy 25 years ago at the age of 15, found work as a Beantown busboy. Ten restaurants later, he was making a nice dollar as a waiter in the Italian North End. And then one night he gets off work with a few bucks in his pocket, along with the key chain his mother gave him, which says MIRACLES DO HAPPEN. He lights a smoke, buys a wad of lottery scratch tickets and hits one for a million bucks...
...mother was singing," says Maurizio's sister LuLu. "And then she gets on the phone and calls the relatives in Italy." Speaking of Italy, the thought of going back home to Calabria and having Italian beach girls peel grapes for him held a certain appeal. "You could live very well there on that kind of money," says Maurizio, 40. Or he could have got his own place in Boston. Maurizio, a single guy, lives at his mother's house with his sister and two of his four brothers, old country style...
...Maurizio didn't want the beaches of southern Italy or the bachelor pad. He had always dreamed of buying his own eatery in the North End, even though restaurants are among the riskiest businesses around. And last April, that's exactly what the busboy turned millionaire did, hiring practically the entire family to come work the American Dream with...
...killing innocent civilians. Just last Friday, NATO mistakenly hit a Kosovo rebel base near the capital, Pristina. Washington is not leading the war but shying away from winning it. "If NATO wants a military victory in Yugoslavia, the only way to get it is to risk pilots now," says Maurizio Cremasco, a former general in the Italian air force. "They don't do this for the same reason the Apache helicopters haven't been utilized--because low-altitude flying still involves the risk that pilots and crews will get shot down and killed...