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...laws as suggestions, not orders. Corruption was always a part of life. What has changed, though, may be the willingness of Italians to do something about it. Voters will go to the polls this Sunday to register their outrage in a referendum on their discredited political system. A si vote -- widely expected -- will not undo decades of corruption or transform the political landscape overnight, but supporters of reform argue that the referendum is the best way to begin the difficult passage toward a more responsive -- and responsible -- political order. "If the yes vote wins, it will not mean a magic...
There aren't many absolute rulers around these days, on thrones or in executive suites, but S.I. ("Si") Newhouse Jr. comes close. Newhouse, 64, who controls the magazines-and-books principality of his family's $11 billion media empire, is accountable to no stockholders, keeps his own counsel and makes his own moves. When he is unhappy with the way things are going at one of his holdings, he is noted for acting stealthily, swiftly and at times brutally to make changes -- as editors at Vogue and Self magazines, among others, have learned to their sorrow...
Newhouse arranged Gottlieb's departure more gracefully than he had past firings: he gave Gottlieb a rich settlement and allowed him to step down under cover of a plausible (and largely true) statement citing "conceptual differences that ((Si and I)) have been unable to resolve." But there was no mistaking the boldness of Newhouse's double gamble. Besides matching Brown with the New Yorker, he entrusted Vanity Fair to Graydon Carter, 42, former editor of the weekly New York Observer and a founding editor of Spy magazine, who professed himself to be "modestly confident and modestly terrified...
...hands at the New Yorker is whether another generation will recognize it. "In the past five years," maintains a key editor, "we have simply witnessed the twitching of the corpse. Now the body is really dead." The staff's waggish valedictory for the magazine as they have known it -- "Si-yonara" -- shows a clear awareness of who is really shaping the changes that lie ahead. As one of them says, "What we've learned is that when you're as rich and powerful as Si Newhouse, you can do exactly what you want...
...island, the state-hooders employed defamatory tactics, accusing Governor Rafael Hernandez-Colon and his Popular Democratic Party of rebuffing the United States and pursuing a separatist ideological course. Under the leadership of Dr. Pedro Rosello, the prostatehood New Progressive Party unleashed a campaign of fear, aimed at equating the "Si," or affirmative response, with a vote of confidence to the governor for an additional term as well as an increase in crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, mental illness, unemployment, social upheaval...