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Residents of Sao Paolo do amazing things in their cars. They shave. They apply their makeup. They chat up the girl or guy in the neighboring car and make dates. They read. They learn foreign languages. They watch DVDs. Paulistas do all these things because they have no choice; the city's crippling traffic problem forces them to spend a major proportion of their lives inching their way through gridlock...
...forces for decency and transparency are present in every party, not just the left, which has traditionally led the fight against the Mob. The martyred Palermo magistrate Paolo Borsellino came from a right-wing anti-Mafia tradition that persists today. Young Catholics, too, are among the most militant Mob fighters, and should demand candidates worthy of the cause. We recall the words of Pope John Paul II in 1993 in Sicily after a series of bloody Mafia attacks: "This people, the Sicilian people, so attached to life, who love life, who give life, cannot continue to live under the pressure...
...into Interpol's command center. One morning in January, Javier Sánchez, an Interpol operational assistant from Barcelona, sat hunched over a computer in the Lyons office, attempting to find a man who had traveled across three continents on stolen documents, and then vanished in São Paolo. Two days earlier, Mexican officials had spotted his stolen Portuguese passport on Interpol's list when he flew into Mexico City from Frankfurt. They deported him back to Germany, where he presented a second stolen passport, this one Brazilian; German officials then deported him to São Paolo, where...
...nearly invisible sign requesting “Please Do Not Sit”). The nature of the entanglements also generates the urge to discover hidden connections between distant pieces. There is an unobtrusive grid of small colored boxes in one of the black-and-white photographs of Caracas by Paolo Gasparini in the first room of the show; a similar pattern of colors turns up in a group of color photographs of the present-day city in a different room. The more you look, the more you find. It is therefore a pleasure to find every detail of the show...
...steal from museums, galleries and homes. By comparison, Europe's unprotected churches offer easy pickings. Meanwhile, the one thing that churches have relied upon for centuries to protect them is no longer quite the deterrent it used to be. "The fear of God doesn't exist anymore," laments Father Paolo Picca, pastor of the SS. Salvatore church in Velletri, Italy. "The thieves don't fear anyone, except maybe the police when they come to get them...