Giuseppe Masseria arrived in New York from Palermo, Sicily in 1902 at the age of 23. Soon he was employed as an enforcer for the gang controlled by Nicholas Morello, an all-Sicilian mob in New York. By 1929 Masseria had laid claim to all the major...

Until late last year, CMP Healthcare Media probably was best known--if it was known at all--as "a West Coast medical publishing company in an East Coast World," according to group president Vicki Masseria, who really didn't mind the inattention. "We were kind of...

A farm building amid splendid grounds in southern Italy is transformed into a special genre of a grand hotel. Within the Apulia region of Italy, the Adriatic seaside village of Ostuni--surrounded by ancient walls and characterized by a cluster of white washed...