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...taken, it is unlikely that the PCC will quietly fade away. The group runs most of Sao Paulo's 109 jails and will continue to challenge the state unless they are allowed to retain some control over an empire that includes drug trafficking, armed robbery and kidnapping, said Renato Simoes, a human rights expert who has followed the rise of the group. "I think it's a power struggle," said Simoes, a Sao Paulo state congressman who serves on the state's Human Rights Commission. Whatever happens, Paulistas are afraid, and with good reason. Marcola, Macaroni and Starfruit...
...have no idea what you've done," the 73-year-old man muttered after he failed to bar the farmhouse door to Renato Cortese, the police officer who had burst through to take him into custody. Cortese brushed off the remark as a typical bad guy's pro forma plea of innocence. He was certain he had his man. The soft-spoken, cigar-smoking cop with a salt-and-pepper beard had been on the hunt for seven years, staring at version after version of sketches of the fugitive. "I'd had dreams about him, of his face...
...chief threat to Arroyo, however, comes from her political opposition, which includes parties that currently share power along with influential individuals out in the cold: Estrada's allies; Poe's supporters; the Marcos family; and even Arroyo's former Executive Secretary Renato de Villa, a onetime armed forces Chief of Staff and Defense Secretary who last week called for a "truth commission" to be set up to investigate the so-called Gloriagate tape. A lot of them don't want to wait for the next presidential election, due in 2010, for a shot at power. Their main goal...
...Perretti observes. Other analysts have noted that the tax conditions that made last week's transaction so lucrative might not outlast Berlusconi's time in office. All of which makes more sense than the notion that any political worries about conflicts suddenly made Berlusconi decide to sell. Says pollster Renato Mannheimer: "Conflict of interest is something that matters only to that part of the Italian public that supports the opposition anyway. Those who vote for Berlusconi are entirely indifferent to it." Trying To Generate Interest Paying clients interest on checking accounts may be old hat in places like...
...fatal. And since the Pope's health is itself increasingly a central issue for the church, there is another key power player to watch. Last week, when the respirator at John Paul's private apartment wasn't enough to clear his breathing, the Pontiff's longtime personal physician, Renato Buzzonetti, decided to rush him to hospital. Not even the Pope dares ignore doctor's orders...