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...Beyond money, the Mafia is a study in power. Provenzano withstood conditions of abject poverty in order to reign over a vast criminal network from the heartland of the Italian island. (A boss who flees his home turf with a suitcase of cash is, on the other hand, considered a failure and possible traitor.) Of course, power and money feed off each other: Provenzano, for one, never stopped working to acquire wealth for Cosa Nostra, even if he couldn't spend it himself. Despite the blows to its leadership, the organization still generates billions of dollars of annual turnover...
...Cupola's sway is thought to have faded in importance under the reign of Salvatore (Toto) Riina in the 1980s, when the bloodthirsty boss of bosses wielded a more autocratic hand. The boss board is believed to have rubber-stamped the 1992 assassinations of Falcone and fellow magistrate Paolo Borsellino, but it was at the insistence of Riina, who would be captured the following year...
...Henri wants to avoid popular dissent around his reign, which may help explain his decision to cede political authority in order to hold on to the Duke's role as symbol of national unity. Michel Pauly, a professor of transnational Luxembourg history at the University of Luxembourg, says stripping the Duke of any legislative authority is the "natural democratic evolution" of the country, and predicts that Luxembourg will eventually go down the path of the purely ceremonial monarchy in place in countries such as Sweden and Denmark...
...Beinart's brilliant essay ought to be sealed in a TIME capsule to be opened at the end of this generation. Barack Obama and the Democrats have broken the reign of the Republican "corporatocracy" and throttled the neocon New American Century in favor of the ancient Oriental wisdom of peaceful coexistence of freedom and order. The recent Republican ineptness in matters foreign and domestic has jolted us into the revelation that conservative dogma has been largely naive and misguided, and the wise course into the future is progressive. Roger Steed, Dayton, Ohio...
...collapse. Mugabe's party is widely seen internationally as having stolen the election, and international donors and investors are unlikely to do anything that might be seen as propping up his regime. And the social and economic pressure on Mugabe is clearly mounting. (See pictures of Robert Mugabe's reign...