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...enough). Strolling the colorful streets of Palermo today, one sees a new outbreak of draped sheets that simply read: rita for president. The message driving the challenger's campaign couldn't be clearer. "We need to break with the past," Borsellino told Time. "We have a system based on pure political patronage that makes people think they have to go ask 'Please' for something that should be their right." She believes there is a fundamental link between low-level favor swapping and Cosa Nostra's firm hold on Sicily. "Patronage is illegality," she said. "The Mafia's relationship with...
...international study. By encountering other cultures, students from the U.S. learn something about their own thinking. Most of us at this school, indeed, think like Americans. It is not intellectual integrity that leads us to pretend otherwise—and if we strive for “pure,” generic efficacy in academic life, we are apt to miss out on rich legacies in American thought.With a nationalist mindset, then, in my final weeks as a member of this academic community, I offer an instance of the most primal and distinctive kind of American speech...
...made me laugh," says Moretti. "I wanted to emphasize the danger. Italy has got used to considering normal things that are simply unacceptable for a democracy." So when the onscreen director says "Action!" and Moretti steps into the shiny shoes and mirror-windowed car of his adversary, it is pure Berlusconi - and Moretti. "I wanted to play the role without imitating or parodying," he says. The actor-director also appears earlier in the film, this time as himself. Waving away a request to participate in Il Caimano, Moretti says he's working on a comedy instead. But why in these...
...Mater who teaches Lightning the truth of any Lasseter film: friendship is family. "To Lightning," he says, "Mater represents pure friendship. Like a dog: 'I'll be by your side forever.'" (Mater was the inspiration of Ranft, whose story-tweaking genius infused every Pixar movie. Tragically, he died last August, when the car he was in missed a turn on that beautiful winding road, California's Pacific Coast Highway...
...this, there lies a spectrum: At one end service in a form that is direct, local, and pure; at the other, service in a form that is indirect, broad, and clouded by questions of sincerity and ambition (direct service at one end, business at the other, with political work somewhere in between). The most direct service tends to be the least glamorous, the lowest paying, and the least pursued; the least direct tends to be the most glamorous, the highest paying, and the most widely applied for in the rush of fall recruiting season...