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...cents on political, ethical and economic problems? -Amanda Cusick, Piedmont, Calif.I've used my voice to publicize certain issues. I've been involved with Oxfam on the proliferation of the illegal sale of small arms throughout the world, which is causing such, such devastation, and the war in northern Uganda. The only way you can sometimes garner attention is by sending someone like me as a front person...
...holds no sway here, and the coastline has so far not been marred by ugly construction projects. This quiet town both defies and embodies the deepest problems of the south - and of Italy as a whole. And it is places like Amendolara, neither blazing northern successes nor clichéd horrors of the south, that are most likely to chart the country's future...
...times in a five-minute span - staring menacingly and veering closer each time. Resident Luca Giorgi offered a warmer welcome, but his message was ambiguous. "Every time something happens, they talk about 'Ndrangheta. What is this 'Ndrangheta?" asks the 33-year-old pizzamaker, who spent a decade in the northern city of Bologna before returning to San Luca. "No one here rapes women on the street. There's respect...
...know for sure," he said. "They wrongly called an end to the conflict in 1962." He agreed that no one was satisfied with the power-sharing agreement that technically gives the province's Catholics as much say in government as the Protestants. And one of the biggest problems for Northern Irish Catholics is unemployment; much of the lost generation only knows how to fight...
...wasn't just in Northern Ireland that there was an end to violence. I was in Palermo on Good Friday and met the city's police chief. It's been 15 years since the Sicilian Mafia has been blowing up judges and prosecutors. Is the violence over? "If I dare say it, it is," the police chief said. "The Mafia figured out it just wasn't worth it, the killing and bombing, drawing the fury of Rome...