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Dec142006
giovanni falcone
Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 07:07AM He cracked the mafia's code of silence or omerta'. The Palermo airport bears his name. His picture now hangs in nearly every Italian judicial office (and in schools and city halls across Sicily). He nearly brought cosa nostra to its knees, but was assassinated before he fully succeeded. Today's great Italian is Giovanni Falcone.

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