Playing the game -- well.

I believe Charles Richards, in his book, 'The New Italians,' when he writes: 'Many reasons are given for the lack of respect the law enjoys. In part, the Italian way of doing things entails finding any way possible of achieving the required result. It is deeply engrained in the culture to try to get round laws, to try and improve on them. L'arte d'arrangiarsi, finding a way, is what it says: an art form.' Gotta give Italians credit for that. Beating the system by creating one's own system of defeating the bureaucracy. Not only is it an art form, but a game. Played well. Richards concludes that some laws and regulations are so absurd they are an invitation to be broken. --Jim Broede