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textminer | 12 years ago

Fascinating story, but I don't see how the town's larger economic forces drove the actions of either Rosa or Cantrelli. Mind elaborating?

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cafard|12 years ago

It seems to me that it in part was the effect of the boom: the hot local economy drawing a lot of unattached young men with money, the local government expanding too rapidly for controls.

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