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...miss, near-slapstick stories about one "Sam Slade," a private investigator who eventually sells out to the worldwide network of conspirators defending The Canon. (One of the conspirators is Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, who orders her bodyguard "Malloy" to throw an over-inquisitive Slade out of the New York Harvard Club.) Most, however, are serious essays--from the lucid "Integrating the American Mind" to the wandering "Trading on the Margin...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Gates Makes a Strong Defense of Multiculturalism and Afro-American Studies in Latest Collection of Essays | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

...killings in which Gravano admitted having a hand. "Sometimes I was the shooter," said Gravano. "Sometimes I was a backup guy. Sometimes I set the guy up. Sometimes I just talked about it." Foremost among these rubouts: the 1985 murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano and his bodyguard Thomas Bilotti outside a New York City steak house -- an execution that put Gotti in the top job. Gravano says he and Gotti planned the killing because Castellano had got too greedy and "was selling out the family for his own basic businesses." According to Gravano, he and Gotti watched the shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials Why Is Sammy the Bull Singing? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Simels spots defense blunders throughout the process, from jury selection to the refusal to call a key witness -- Tyson's bodyguard -- to Fuller's loud, agitated summation. "They should not have let Tyson testify at the grand jury," Simels argues. "Then they compounded it by allowing Mike to come up with a different story during the trial." Tyson appeared to be lying, and lying stupidly, fulfilling any juror's suspicions about the boxer's brutality. Notes Garrison: "You couldn't look at this delicate little thing and imagine her having Mike Tyson say, 'Hey, I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law The Bad and the Beautiful | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...guests were marched single file out to the driveway, then ordered to lie face down on the pavement and surrender their weapons. "One of the policemen began to kick us as we lay there," he says. "I received a kick in the face, just under the eye." Theodore's bodyguard and friend, Yves Jean-Pierre, was killed by gunfire. "I didn't see Yves shot," he says, "but others did." One of the policemen, he continued, "suggested they finish us with a grenade." Just in time, uniformed police ordered the plainclothesmen to put their weapons on safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Caribbean Bad to Worse | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Though Jeffries did not know I was Jewish at the time of the interview, he did expect me to write a blanket endorsement for him because I am Black. Jeffries assaulted me and had his bodyguard steal from me when he figured out that wasn't the case. There have been numerous newspaper reports of Blacks being intimidated by his thugs at his school, CUNY. This man ought to be in jail, not at Harvard...

Author: By J. ELIOT Morgan, | Title: Now is the Time to Protest | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

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