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Italian authorities say Lo Piccolo was working hard to rebuild those transatlantic ties, largely disrupted in the 1980s by U.S. investigations and local Sicilian turf wars. He had allowed members of a historic Mafia family, the Inzerillos, to return to Palermo in recent months from more than two decades of forced exile in the U.S. after former top boss Totò Riina tried to exterminate the entire clan. Piero Angeloni, head of Palermo's police detective unit, says Lo Piccolo's arrest is likely to stall Sicilian efforts to deepen links with the "Americani." But the contacts are sure...
...than Americans at the battle of Yorktown). Their hardheaded transactions were sweetened by personal alliances. America's most important diplomat in Paris was the scientist and wit Benjamin Franklin, who became such a celebrity in France that his image graced snuffboxes and inkwells. The hero the French sent in return was the Marquis de Lafayette, an ardent young nobleman who passionately embraced the cause of liberty and was regarded by George Washington as a surrogate...
...Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled when he got into ISB. "The more I looked, the more I realized it was on a par with U.S. schools," says Varma, who also liked the idea of being able to return home. "So far, I'm really impressed. Friends want to apply here next year because it's quickly gained such recognition. Indians are flooding back to India, and for them this is the ideal setup...
...have slowly started to recover. And liquidity is slowly returning to the debt market. However, I can't see a return to the levels of debt that were made available before or the covenant-light scenarios. So the pendulum has swung back to a more conventional debt market. We're actually having to put up equity and have covenants you have to look...
...heresy: to redefine or even expand the boundaries of Champagne. The beverage, after all, gets some of its character from its chalky terroir and rough climate. Yet the Syndicat Général des Vignerons de la Champagne, the grape-growers union, argues that an expansion would simply be a return to Champagne's origins. When the region was first defined in 1927, it included 128,500 acres (52,000 hectares), but that area was shrunk after World...