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...recent United Nations energy study, put it. On the windy border of Washington and Oregon, citizen groups are already making a choice. They have pressured utilities to invest in green energy, and a federal tax credit has made it more profitable. "It's the right thing to do," says Vito Giarrusso, manager of the Stateline wind farm, "to help our little piece of the earth." --With reporting by Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...crook too, and wants sonny boy to fix up her house so she can settle the family debts. In a town where every transaction is negotiated with a handshake (you don't let go till you've agreed on a price) and the mayor is a penny-ante Vito Corleone, no one can be trusted, so no one is trusting?including the ex-con's 11-year-old son. The boy's education in moral larceny is the final lesson in this bracingly acerbic amorality tale...
...Russians think anyone with dark skin is a bandit." Turns out he's not a bandit; he's a heroin dealer. But then, in this dark, delicious comedy everyone is a crook: the ex-con hero, his "dying" mother and the village mayor who acts as if he's Vito Corleone. Creative chicanery: that's capitalism, Third World-style. If films weren't overtly political, they were insistently social. Some of the strongest works examined the working-class, the out-of-work, the criminally forlorn. The Brazilian City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund...
DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, writer who chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (Dusty Springfield) from the Italian song "Io Che Non Vivo" by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini...