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...Palermo headquarters - with some 25 aides and supporters crammed into his office to look on - Cuffaro brushed off suggestions that he should pay closer attention to the company he keeps: "If I have the chance to shake the hand of every Sicilian, even with the risk of shaking the wrong hand, it's a risk I'm prepared to take." The perennial Mafia question is once again at the center of an election campaign to lead the semi-autonomous region of 5 million people. The vote comes just seven weeks after Provenzano was captured by police in the hills near...
...growth as consumers face higher mortgage costs. Real estate prices will fall, and access to credit will tighten across the board. This dynamic could become particularly nasty given the record level of household and public-sector debt, and the U.S.'s massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong-footed by the market. In 2001-02, markets were gripped by the fear of deflation. Commodities were going for a fraction of today's prices, but virtually no one was interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That should be telling...
...Ayatollah (Atlantic Monthly Press; 680 pages) is his detailed and bleakly compelling account of what the hostages endured during the siege and of the anguish it produced in the U.S. The author of Black Hawk Down, about the 1993 U.S. military mission in Mogadishu that went lethally wrong, Bowden knows something about American misadventures in the wider world. He may not be a policy analyst, but he writes about events in a way that gives a clear picture of both high-level decision making and the price paid by people on the ground. Maybe that's something more policy analysts...
...movie has been called a comedy, and there are light touches to leaven the melodrama, like the super-noisy kisses the women exchange - sometimes two, sometimes three, sometimes five, depending on how close they feel to the kissee. When Sole asks her niece Paula, "What's wrong with you?" (not knowing the girl has just been forced into murder), she shrugs and replies, "I'm at a difficult age." But the real epiphanies are not comic. Cruz, in a fortissimo performance, sings (lip-synchs, actually) the flamenco song "Volver" with a passion that expresses Raimunda's indomitable peasant will...
...trying to stop primarily undocumented Mexican workers rather than terrorists from crossing the border, is there anything wrong with that? Just because there are some racists influencing the debate doesn't mean anyone who is for immigration control is a racist. Figuring out just how many immigrants, Hispanic or otherwise, to let into the country each year is exactly what lawmakers ought to be trying to do as they undertake immigration reform. Setting immigration targets that are in the country's interest is, after all, the point of having an immigration policy to begin with...