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...accepted the Godfather syndrome." In addition, dramatic changes in American moral attitudes ?the new sexual permissiveness, relaxed concern over marijuana and cocaine, and the drive to legalize gambling ?create an ever-increasing appetite for organized crime's services. On almost any given day, newspaper headlines attest graphically to the size and variety of that appetite. Last week, for example, two organized crime figures and seven associates were indicted in Detroit on charges of luring rich businessmen to sex and gambling parties and then extorting large sums of money from them ?in one case, more than...
...said: "I 'ate heights." The plight of "S" is just as pitiful, for he faced an unequal task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest to his highstrung nature: "I can be a pretty intense player because I'm always hitting it rude...
...group does sing exclusively in Russian, but those who heard them in the aftermath of Harvard's victorious day on the football field last year in New Haven, can attest to the vibrancy and sincerity which they derive from the foreign tongue and tunes in their musical offerings. Anyway, if you find the all-Russian diet too filling, you can piirouetteska down to Winthrop to fluff out on "L'Appllon de Ballac" or up to the Yen Ching Library to decipher I Ching...
...these cases it often appeared that the Indians did not fully understand the game. Basically, says Wilbur Jacobs in Dispossessing the American Indian (1972), "the Indian saw the land as supernaturally provided for man's use and not subject to sale or individual ownership." Some Indian leaders would attest too late that they had no power to "sell" land, not as the white man understood the word. In exchange for lands conveyed by treaty, the Indians often got little more than unenduring "protection...
...Aside from individual practitioners of the dunking art, there are teams who make the stuff a group effort. The University of Louisville's official nickname is the Cardinals, but they prefer the designation "Doctors of Dunk." The pyrotechnics are crowd-rousing, as increased decibel levels in fieldhouses everywhere attest, and at Louisville, fans express their appreciation in more tangible ways: attendance is up an average of 2,000 for each home game...