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“Please,” I gasp. “Tell them to be gentle with her.”
The inmate lowers his weapon an inch. “What?”
My head rocks backward, meets a hard surface. “She’s just a child.”
“Who?” he demands, his voice booming between my ears. “Hey—”
“My sister,” I choke out, though I can’t seem to move. I feel as if I’m going blind. “When I die, they’ll throw her in the asylum.”
The inmate seems to still.
...
But when I force myself to look up, the inmate is gone.
Although the Scandinavians traded with their Christian neighbours, they were operating on the periphery. The wics of Francia and Britain were booming, and the kings and monasteries grew rich on the profits, but little of this wealth found its way to the men who trapped animals in the cold north so that their skins could be bought and sold in London or Aachen. The enormous economic growth of the preceding century had created huge disparities between the haves and the have-nots. The Scandinavians knew all about the rich coastal communities of the kingdoms to the south, and they also knew that they were undefended.
Silvester II ( c. 946–1003), the first French Pope, was a prolific scholar who endorsed the study of Arabic texts, yet found himself the subject of a bizarre legend propagated by the English monk William of Malmesbury and the rebel Cardinal Beno. According to this legend, as a younger man Silvester had stolen an Arab book of spells while studying in the Muslim cities of Córdoba and Seville, and taught himself sorcery. He was also said to have owned a bronze robotic head that would prophetically answer his questions with a booming ‘yes’ or ‘no’, and to have made a Faustian pact to magically help him ascend to the Papal throne.
A country with a booming economy will often have a currency that is appreciating. Strong growth presents investment opportunities that attract capital from the rest of the world. To make these local investments, foreign investors must buy the local currency first. The opposite happens when an economy is flagging. Investors take their capital somewhere else, selling the local currency on their way out.
La Barbera was finally put out of action in the early hours of 25 May 1963. What struck Italian public opinion about his shooting was not its ferocity—two cars pulled up beside him and their occupants fired repeated volleys of shots; nor was it the remarkable fact that La Barbera survived, despite being hit in his left eye, neck, chest, back, leg, and groin; nor was it even that doctors found another bullet lodged in his head from an earlier attack.
What was surprising about the incident was rather where it happened. La Barbera was shot in viale Regina Giovanna, a residential street in Milan—the booming northern city where the Giuliettas were built. When the mafia spread beyond Sicily, the issue moved up the whole nation’s political agenda.
