Can a Gay, Catholic Leftist Actually Squelch Corruption in Sicily?

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Rosario Crocetta, flanked by bodyguards, in Sicily. He has received death threats from organized crime, dating from his time as mayor of a small city.

By MARCO DE MARTINO
Published: September 25, 2013

Rosario Crocetta smokes two to three packs of cigarettes a day, lighting them without putting them to his lips, often glancing at the three cellphones arrayed before him as he does so. If you are speaking to him, as an emissary from Turin named Antonio Saitta was on the day I first met Crocetta, he often picks up one of the phones in midconversation, without apology, and urgently begins reading text messages.

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