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...take the little restaurant on the beach at Xia Xia, a great sweep of sand running for miles north of Maputo. Nuno Fonseca and his second wife Paola spent the war years in Maputo but came back to her largely destroyed hometown in early 1994. Once there were swank hotels along the strand for tourists. "When we got here there was nothing, nothing," says Nuno...
Hubbard founded the statewide Perot petition drive in Kansas last spring. Now, the 46-year-old Dillard's department store employee from Paola County has dropped out of the movement's state leadership, but still backs Ross Perot...
...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 behind their wives as Italy's so-called white widows...
...three daughters born to building contractor Stefano Maino and his wife Paola in Lusiana, a small town in Italy's Veneto region, Sonia was sent to Cambridge in the early '60s to study English. There she met Rajiv, who was studying mechanical engineering at Trinity College. Although both families initially opposed their marrying, it was Indira who first gave her blessing and later persuaded Sonia's parents to consent. The young Italian wholeheartedly adopted India, learning fluent Hindi and Indian cooking...
Only hours earlier, Pope John Paul II had issued one of his strongest condemnations ever of organized crime. Visiting the southern Italian village of Paola, he called upon listeners to break "the tragic chain of vendettas" and abandon the Mafia's code of silence, "which binds so many people in a type of squalid complicity dictated by fear...