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restrictions on competition. If the U.S. succeeds, American car- riers would gain enormous advantages because they have cost structures two to three times lower than their overseas rivals. If...
...Some of the movement's top leaders still inParliament, of which only six polled more than 5 percent of the sist that their first priority is to draw clear-cut "frontiers" bevote...
...system with some reassurance to the minor parties about their But April's referendums not only backed electoral reforms but representation in Parliament...
...But reregulation would free foreign governments to resist any pressure to open their markets...
...Salaries and ben- serves no one...
...When the recession drove passengers off Or al 1), airline...
...Nixon Moral Philosopher of the satirical account of the Jesuit who found Enter Woody the casuist, resembling one Year Award...
...FINITA LA COMMEDIA It's no wonder...
...While the health-care industry may Several airlines developed their "hub-and-spoke" systems be- respond well to government action, the airline industry reveals yond all economic sense...
...Some crumbs were earmarked whelmingly to replace an outmoded proportional representa- for the minor parties...
...No, for that the Big Three have only themselves to blame...
...ment in government...
...I discovered it is not possible to 11 In an age in which so many dismiss marlive in America and remain successfully ¢ .r A riage as no more than a "piece of paper," ignorant of the domestic troubles of Woody Woody has demonstrated the vital imand Mia...
...For ex- A May bombing in Rome, which injured more than twenty ample, public financing for political parties is now out...
...More with its unions...
...Left (PDS)-are all opposed to radical departures from the pro- Meanwhile, a broad agreement needs to be reached on new elecportional system, a system that insured professional pols a de- toral laws that can reconcile the main benefits of the majority cisive voice in selecting candidates in national and local elections...
...The carriers bet passengers would continue to crowd onto planes, despite an economic downturn...
...ATTnRr'E- AT- Lhw members of the Nixon Award committee Nor am I an authority on Woody Allen wanted to give the prize to Woody himthe family man...
...companies that could save themselves...
...for 1hcr1 rncrrrc r. - planes and the insolvent carriers didn't go out of business, the Big Three were forced to cut prices to fill their shiny new jets...
...And ment can't close money-losing hubs...
...But that alters the whole tic adventure between an older man and away from his films for years...
...So thin is the crucial line between Woody had become a sort of American which the church says is morally wrong...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr...
...No, it is not incest, words, "But that would be wrong...
...Commonweal 18 June 1993: 7 In a national referendum held in April, Italians voted over- for the Communists (now PDS...
...The League abstained on the vote of confidence used such complex and obscure terms that many voters had trou- for the new Ciampi government, as did the PDS...
...Change in Italy will not be easy...
...But as the May bombings indicate, the Mafia is not about to go gently into the sunset...
...succeeds, American carriers would gain enormous advantages because they have cost structures two to three times lower than their overseas rivals...
...It is named for a way to justify dueling, which was pro- of those tragicomic Chekhovian characNixon because of his immortal scribed by the church but prescribed by ters from his movies...
...Italy's equivalent of the LEO J. WOLLEMBORG 1040 Form is a nightmare for most Italians, calling for answers Leo J. Wollemborg, a former contributor to Commonweal, of up to 255 questions...
...The good he explains, his jesuitical logic running me explain...
...The plosion of protests in Italy, sparked by revelations of large-scale main beneficiary has been the Northern League...
...Oh, it's a long, long Annie Hall, I discovered to my delight that fend oneself...
...airlines were allowed to cut fares and expand service in Europe, they'd have a huge advantage...
...Further, he may keep up this pre- been nothing less than a horrendous crime...
...It charges that corruption, indicate that while most Italians may not be imbued the central government syphons off tax money from the industrial with a puritan ethic, their tolerance of corruption is far from North to subsidize the backward South and to finance the corlimitless...
...The carriers also believed that as bankrupt airlines went out of business, they'd take over the .and drank you for f7vini...
...New laws giving more powers to the police and the judiciary, as well as providing better protection for informers, have helped to round up hundreds of mobsters, including the "boss of the bosses" of Cosa Nostra, Toto' (Salvatore) Riina...
...in such cir- a younger woman...
...century Jesuit casuist, one of those who I say this not by way of criticism but in gave both the Jesuits and casuistry bad order to confess my own inadequate knowl- names...
...In next spring's general election, the League Opposition to change can be expected from vested interests may poll up to 15 percent of the votes, right behind the PDS and from habits deeply ingrained in the government's perva- and the CDs (which anticipate 17 percent and 20 percent, resive bureaucracy...
...than one-third of Ciampi's ministers have no party affiliation...
...Let the aristocratic code of honor...
...If U.S...
...After all, Allen's relationship fl SOLE MIA with Mia Farrow was a virtual husbandTHE FIRST NIXON PRIZE wife connection, even though they were not officially married...
...On a recent visit to Rome's main are less efficient than elsewhere in the West...
...self-defense...
...Ciampi has also national economy may yet save the day...
...It ers in large destination markets like Chicago, New York, and can encourage better labor relations...
...While hubs may be big money-mak- its limits...
...Unfortunately, this was the mo- it is now a case of self-defense, which of ilar, is it not, to the equally thin line diment he was overdosing on Diane Keaton, course the church says is morally per- viding damnable dueling from meritorious a little bit of whom goes a long way...
...To speed mail de- jail, he was applauded even by many inmates...
...League ble understanding them...
...Certainly there are things the government can do...
...Girrhrrs .Airline...
...The recent ex- ners have been increasingly weakened in recent elections...
...Ballot instructions for the recent referendums spectively...
...That carrier pays high wages in return longtime governor of Italy's Central Bank...
...pledged to streamline the tax system...
...Unions are barely tolerated...
...Hence he was related to the daughter as a virtual stepfather...
...Carriers were busy expanding on the ground, as well...
...been made by a talented sophomore, and tense until he finds himself on the field of But absent the formality of marriage, the since I have always had something of a honor facing an enemy who is armed with relationship is simply a charming romanprejudice against sophomores, I stayed sword or pistol...
...the umpteenth time, so again I discontin- He would have made a good seventeenthued visits to Woody Allen movies...
...needed...
...Indeed, it's a problem the government can ban "predatory pricing" used by bigger airthe carriers are already tackling...
...At first I tried to ignore ccPECIR LI2ING IN self because of the great value he obvihis legal dispute with Mia Farrow, but to MOR.L IAr4&RtIprcl~s ously attaches to the formality of marriage...
...reminded of Pascal's lampoon on Jesuit But wiser heads prevailed, and the Commonweal 18 June 1993: 9...
...Over the last few years United, Delta, and American went on an aircraft buying binge...
...weaken or wipe them out...
...American, for instance, has lines to undermine new entrants...
...they aren't brought in as partners, and they learn about key decisions the way the rest of us do-in the newspapers...
...For this is no longer a duel, time...
...For the first time, these cuts are intended to affect such sacred cows as old-age and disability pensions, and "Nevermnind " free health care...
...A lovely May-andI broke down and returned, in the era of cumstances one is morally entitled to de- December story...
...I could not take Diane playing Diane for Allen missed his century and calling...
...The lopsided cluding about 160 members of Parliament-have been arrestvote (29 million to 6 million) reflected pent-up popular exas- ed or investigated under "Operation Clean Hands...
...And sizable factions within the major According to one optimistic scenario, the Ciampi governparties-the Christian Democrats (CDs), the Socialists, and the ment might last until the spring of '94, when national elections former Communists, now renamed the Democratic Party of the could be coupled with the vote for the European Parliament...
...Tough work rules, Kevin Kelly writes for Business Week...
...no avail...
...akin to those that hamstrung the auto industry during the 1970s, sharply constrict productivity...
...For the first time since World But that's something a government commission can do lit- War II, Italy has a government headed by a pretle about...
...Overall, airline management hasn't worked hard to earn labor's trust...
...Still, is a journalist living in Rome...
...Public services in Italy cost more and children as Italy's Superman...
...By the time moral nature of the situation...
...On the economic front, where Premier Ciampi's competence and integrity are a big plus, new impetus will be given to an austerity program that calls for both tax increases and major spending cuts...
...A Southwest pilot, for instance, ceed Socialist Premier Giuliano Amato by Italy's president, Oscar puts in 30 percent more flying time than an average pilot at Luigi Scalfaro, Ciampi was able to form his cabinet without United, but earns only slightly less...
...Over the past fifteen months, they have ger still represented by the Mafia and other criminal organizauncovered a vast web of corruption, built up over the years...
...Unions remain unconvinced that carriers would use any sign of weakness to de- Fed up with corruption, ineptitude, and economic mand steeper and steeper cuts...
...out what this means, outside of granting greater regional and A record sixteen parties are represented in the current local autonomy...
...A year ago, the Mafia raised the level of violence, killing two Italian magistrates...
...The largest shares seem to stand up to the Mafia, an apparent response to recurrent charges to have gone to the CDs and the Socialists, with sizable cuts of collusion between members of the Sicilian clergy and the "Honored Society...
...The smaller parties oppose any electoral reform likely to tween the Po Valley and the rest of Italy...
...They bought over 445 aircraft to expand their fleets by up to 43 percent each...
...So far, more than 1,500 politicians-intion system in the Senate with a majority system...
...Very simChekhov...
...portance of that document...
...Since then, the govC0-mm- NT5 ernment, first headed by Premier Amato and now by Ciampi, has scored substantial successes against criminal organizations operating mostly in the South...
...Once again, the govern- especially since the new fuel tax will hit the industry hard...
...To tions, who have links with political parties, notably in the South...
...Horrible labor relations have bedeviled the THE FIX IS OUT industry for years...
...abandoned routes...
...livery, industrial concerns in Milan use private couriers to post The long-ruling Christian Democrats and their Socialist parttheir mail just across the border in Switzerland...
...Lease payments on new aircraft can build the nation's health-care system, is suggest a tax to save run well over $200,000 a month...
...So far, United has been rebuffed...
...More importantly, these options overlook the fact that only the carriers can solve problems they caused...
...The early movies time making the appropriate mental reser- lationship with the daughter would have seemed to me the kind that would have vation...
...other curbs on the powers and privileges of politicians...
...Finally, anything that smells like a taxpayer bailout is polit- The new government's program gives first priority to long overically infeasible...
...Appointed to sucfor more liberal work rules...
...But sweeping reform to repared back operations in San Jose and may close its hub in dress the foibles of businesses in the marketplace isn't what's Raleigh/Durham...
...The lack of dialogue clearly hard times, in May Italians began a new experihampers any meaningful changes...
...It probably should proDallas, a host of hubs in smaller cities like San Jose and vide some tax relief, perhaps in the form of a lower ticket tax, Nashville cost the industry dearly...
...Recently United asked its unions REPORT FROM ITALY for a 5 percent one-year wage cut and a 10 percent increase in productivity, which would require changes in work rules...
...He lives in Chicago...
...And management, led by going through the customary negotiations among Italy's domchief executive Herb Kelleher, has forged a strong relationship inant parties that usually make up the ruling coalition...
...But he has not spelled to figure out how to mark the ballot...
...And when stepfathers have sexual hereby announce that Mia Farrow casuists of the seventeenth century...
...What could be more clear...
...Is overcapacity the government's fault...
...President Clinton can do, just as he's about to raise taxes to reAnd fill them they must...
...A common-sense interpretation of Woody's affair with Mia's adopted daughter would say that the relationship is incestuous...
...It has the magNowadays when I think of Woody ical power of preventing one from doing Allen, I am reminded of Pascal and his the perfectly natural thing of going to bed Provincial Letters...
...Had Allen movies over the years, I have never but he may pretend to accept, at the same he and Mia officially married, then his rebeen a cult follower...
...There is an alternative out there for the airlines to mier who is not a politician, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, learn from: Southwest...
...A stepped-up drive to privatize state holdings 8: 18 June 1993 Commonweal could contribute to further deficit reductions (the budget deficit the resourcefulness of many Italians, the ability of the counnow exceeds 10 percent of GNP, more than three times the av- try's democratic politicians to adjust, and the resilience of its erage in the European Economic Community...
...Their point man, Antonio Di Pietro, is hailed by school stantially healthy society...
...The last thing due reforms...
...is not the same as a real stepfather...
...One relations with stepdaughters, that's inhas won the first annual Richard of my favorite items in this work is Pascal's cest...
...There isn't any money for it...
...More precisely, I am with one's girlfriend's daughter...
...Plainly I am no au- 3. b. SATANyxy, At this point I should note that some thority on Woody Allen the artist...
...Subsidizing inefficiencies that business itself can fix That leaves the thorniest problem: Labor...
...people, and another in Florence, which killed six and damaged The hardest blow to the old party system, however, has come the renowned Uffizi Gallery, were sharp reminders of the danfrom state prosecutors...
...In a Southern town, the chairman of founder, Umberto Bossi, has toned down the movement's earone polling station had to come to the rescue of a citizen who, lier demand that Italy be split into three separate republics, and after forty-five minutes in the voting booth, had not been able now claims the league's goal is federalism...
...edge of his oeuvre...
...rupt party system...
...get lucrative public contracts, private operators must pay politi- On a recent visit to Sicily, Pope John Paul II called upon Catholics cians up to 10 percent of the total costs...
...So what's the lesson...
...I found missible...
...moral turpitude and true love...
...father explained that a Christian gentle- something like this: A virtual stepfather Though I have seen my share of Woody man may not accept a challenge to a duel...
...KEVIN KELLY efits eat up 40 percent of an airline's revenue...
...The peration against mismanagement of national and local affairs magistrates conducting the investigation have become nationby mainstream political parties and was the reaction of a sub- al heroes...
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