Only if people in his city believe that the officers on patrol share the values of the communities they serve can one ever expect to break the omerta - Italian forcode of silence - his detectives encounter.
For a moment, it appeared as if Intel Germany Chief Executive Hannes Schwaderer broke the strict code of silence enforced by Apple this week when he seemingly let it slip to a German-language publication that the computer and gadget maker would be using a version of Intel's Atom processor in an upcoming version of its iPhone.
Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.