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 In Italy, it's not like you have fifteen people in a line, you basically have fifteen individual mini-lines, line bonsai. Everybody has his own plans. Same with everything, the traffic as well. We basically consider rules boring. We think rules are an insult to our intelligence. 

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Timothy Tyson

Blood Done Sign My Name

 
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In 1970 a young black man named Henry Marrow was murdered in Oxford, North Carolina, by a hot-tempered white businessman. That businessman's son was a friend of then-11-year-old Timothy Tyson, who's now a professor and who now retells the story -- and its tragic aftermath.

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