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...Sicilian Mafia, founded in the mid-19th century as a protection racket in Palermo, is the master template of the modern organized-crime network. Yet its success is grounded in paradox. Cosa Nostra is a multinational conglomerate based in the backwater of Sicily, an organization bred in violence that accumulates power best when it maintains internal peace. It is an association of men - sometimes men of extraordinary influence and charisma - yet the Thing is always bigger than even its most powerful bosses...
Moving from a big house to a smaller one isn't the only way to downsize. Luxurious recreational vehicles, stocked with every possible modern convenience from Jacuzzis to wi-fi, are becoming full-time residences for a growing number of Americans. Some are retirees looking for a new adventure, others have jobs that keep them on the road and see RV living as a way to have a home life, and a few just crave the freedom of being on the go now that cell phones and the Internet allow people to work from almost anywhere...
Higher education is one of the most crucial areas for government support in the modern economy in which advanced degrees have become virtual prerequisites for social advancement. If the American dream is to remain attainable for all, then college must be available to everyone, regardless of background...
...today's audiences on a level Shakespeare cannot. While country boy Shakespeare set his plays in faraway lands of long ago, using language that was old-fashioned even then, Middleton, born and raised in London, wrote about urban life in a dialogue that's more familiar to the modern ear. A latter-day Scorsese, he walked on the dark side of the street, where you couldn't tell the good guys from the bad. "Part of the appeal of Shakespeare is that he takes you back to some imagined, glorious past," says Taylor. "But Middleton is overwhelmingly modern. He writes...
Peter J. Gomes, the minister of Memorial Church, received the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom of Worship Medal at a ceremony in New York City yesterday evening for elevating the place of spirituality in the modern world. “He is first of all a brilliant creature who has given traditional religious preaching a higher prominence in our secular world,” said John F. Sears ’65, former executive director of the institute. The medal is one of several awards given by the institute to commemorate the “Four Freedoms?...