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| | Corleone, Italy, trying hard to shed 'Godfather' image |
 | | Corleone, Italy -- Here in the harsh, tawny hills of central Sicily, proud residents of Corleone are trying to take back the name immortalized by Marlon Brando and made synonymous with the Cosa Nostra. |
 | | Like Corleone, the Mafia on this island of vineyards, ancient Greek temples and half-finished concrete buildings has spent the past few years carefully burnishing its public guise and courting a new air of respectability. |
 | | In Corleone, a town of 11,000, residents note that the presence of an anti-Mafia center, inaugurated with great fanfare a couple of years ago and featuring life-size pictures of notorious crime bosses, would have been unthinkable in bloodier days. |
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