Timotheus
Timotheus , c.450-c.357 BC, Greek poet and musician of Miletus. An innovator in music, he added a string to the kithara. Fragments of his dithyrambs and nomes remain. Euripides wrote the prologue for his Persae, a lyric nome.
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MAFIA'S NEW CHIEFS, ECONOMIC POWER TARGETED
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; With leaders of many of the nation's Mafia families now behind bars, law enforcement...legitimate industries and labor unions of Mafia infiltration. "The sun hasn't set on...been studded with a series of successful Mafia prosecutions, with many members of La...
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How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Northern Italy
Magazine article from: Law & Society Review; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...organizations-the Sicilian Mafia, the Hong Kong Triads, the Russian Mafia, and the Japanese Yakuza...collectively referred to as "mafias" (Gambetta 1993...functioning mafias. If mafias emerge at a time of...the entrenchment of mafia g
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Mafia takes a hit after crackdown by Italian officials Mob's attacks in early '90s triggered prosecution of Cosa Nostra leaders
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...on the take. It's that the Sicilian Mafia's "men of honor" are on the run. One...in Sicily, was milked for years by the Mafia for millions of dollars in contracting...Palermo has become the capital of the anti-Mafia," the city's irrepressible mayor...
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Mafia Women.
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...between the different Mafias and how, for instance...Camorra [Neapolitan Mafia] in contrast to...ultimately guilty of Mafia conspiracy. Siebert...comparison between the Mafias and German Nazism...American and Italian Mafias because she also...women incapable of Mafia crimes because ...
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The Mafia.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/24/1990; 700+ words
; ...Only in southern Italy does the Mafia wield the influence Miss Sterling...will to enforce the law. The Mafia is supposed to make gigantic...that the American and Sicilian Mafias combined enjoy an annual turnover...allegedly one of the Sicilian Mafia's top men in New York, was...
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Is the mafia in retreat or in defeat? (Italy)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/29/1995; 700+ words
; ...then at least of a clear reverse for the Mafia. "There are signs, indeed evidence...prosecutor, "that Cosa Nostra [as the Mafia is often called] is slipping." One of...other things, some of the most spectacular Mafia crimes of recent years. They include the...
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For Mafia, a legacy in concrete Palermo bears architectural scars of mob's influence in building industry
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/25/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...there is what people call the city of the Mafia," he said, indicating an area just a...fief -- many people say they can spot a Mafia-made building. They believe it has a...say they can sense what might be called a Mafia esthetic. "When it's a tall building...
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Mafia booms despite crackdown on capos.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Business (London); 1/30/2005; 700+ words
; ...Provenzano and the suicide in jail of the mafia boss considered to be his right-hand...celebration may be premature. Business for the mafia is not only booming, but the arrests do...the criminal business activities of the mafia; last year it was estimated to be E100bn...
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Mafia: power in invisibility
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/31/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...boss of all the bosses, of the Sicilian Mafia. Corleone is also the home of Luciano Liggio, a notorious Mafia mastermind and killer known for having...anybody else here, for that matter. "Mafia? What Mafia?" said Antonio Tufanio...
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Mafia Said to Be Flaunting Its Power; Assassinations Thwart Italian Government's Efforts to Exert Control
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/2/1992; ; 700+ words
; A string of recent Mafia assassinations is intended to sow terror in Sicily...latest in a series of assassinations, blamed on the Mafia, that have claimed Italy's two top anti-Mafia magistrates and a prominent Sicilian politician. The...
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Mafia, The
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Mafia, The The Mafia is an organized...scholars, which revealed the Mafia to have a greater institutional...before. Antecedents of the Mafia date to the late 1800s in Sicily...Self-anointed “ mafias ” filled the breach...
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Mafia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mafia , name given to a number of organized groups of Sicilian...and 20th cent. Unlike the Camorra in Naples, the Mafia had no hierarchic organization; each group operated on its own. The Mafia originated in feudal times, when lords hired brigands...
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Mafia, the
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Mafia, the A clandestine network based on family...persistence and the rapid expansion of the Mafia in liberal Italy after unification (1860...to exercise control. In this sense, the Mafia became Rome's agents in Sicily and other...
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Mafia Capitalism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
MAFIA CAPITALISM Mafia capitalism is a term that emerged to describe Russia's economic system...implied parallel goes to the classic protection rackets of the Sicilian mafia, the actual Russian practice was different. In order to reflect this...
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Mafia Incident
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
MAFIA INCIDENT MAFIA INCIDENT. On 15 October 1890, during a police crackdown on the local Sicilian Mafia, New Orleans chief of police David C. Hennessey was assassinated...
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