Trapped in the infinite cold of space, we bake like Russian mafiosi in a steam room.

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Mafiosi constantly seek to penetrate areas of legitimate business activity, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports from Rome.

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In Macedonia's capital, Skopje, senior politicians, Serbian mafiosi and Albanian guerrillas all hide behind blacked-out car windows.

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So having a foot in the world of legality can be useful for the mafiosi in various ways.

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To take just one of many possible scenarios, a legitimate company might be forced to pay protection money to the local mafiosi.

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Rizzotto's nephew replied that shame was not part of the mafiosi mindset.

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But even if the mafiosi are not making as much as was thought, their profits are still vast, says the BBC's Alan Johnston in Rome.

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Unfortunately, the authors offer no data on lifetime incomes of mafiosi.

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The sets are mostly spectacular, but costumes are a kaleidoscopic three-century mishmash, with 18th-century frock coats, Belle Epoque ballgowns, 1940s mafiosi and swarms of pierced punks and Goths.

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The filmmakers try to make Arquette and Slater lovably goofy compared to the rest of the characters, including the atavistic mafiosi of Detroit and the coke-snorting scuzzballs of Hollywood.

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"This noise and ceremony doesn't help, " said Father Vicenzo Pizzitola, the parish priest of the Parish of San Martino, who has several families of latitanti, Mafiosi on the run, in his flock.

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