Not so easy when your adversary makes the Grendel clan look like Laurel and Hardy.

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The 4, 000 or so stevedores are paid in cash and employed along clan lines.

ECONOMIST: Canny traders adapt to anarchy

Ruth Dunbar Cushing, longtime dolce vita resident of Rome and wife of a polo-playing member of the Vanderbilt clan, is selling two pieces of so-called "tutti-frutti" jewelry made by Cartier in the 1920s and 1930s.

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