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...Tyson may be the willing villain here, but he has his defenders among the fans and the journalists who are in town this week. Tony Datcher of BOSS Magazine, a publication popular in inner city Washington, D.C, tried to explain the seemingly unexplainable fondness for Tyson, especially in D.C. "He's the people's champ, who comes from the grass roots - the streets. You know? He's no worse than Elvis, who got his cousin pregnant and married her at 14. He's not perfect." That this account scrambled the histories of two local music avatars, Presley and Jerry...
...boss, Executive Vice President for Administration Emily Lloyd, personally took care of all community relations on building projects—typically the most contentious issues for a university’s external relations office...
...memo. She spent a week fine-tuning it, setting it aside for days, anguishing and at times doubting whether she could go through with it. Summoning her courage last Tuesday, she at last fired off the 13-page letter ("from the heart," she writes) to her ultimate boss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and flew to Washington to hand-deliver copies to two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee and meet with committee staffers. The letter accuses the bureau of deliberately obstructing measures that could have helped disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. The FBI responded by marking the letter CLASSIFIED...
...where he could watch his beloved Lakers game. Best of all, MARTIN SCORSESE showed 20 tantalizing minutes of clips from his long-delayed epic Gangs of New York in the company of stars LEONARDO DI CAPRIO and CAMERON DIAZ. Rumors of friction between Scorsese and Miramax boss Harvey Weinstein had scorched the Riviera, but over dinner at the posh Eden Roc Restaurant, the two chatted genially, not once shying rolls at each other...
...usual ensemble of toughs with colorful nicknames and brass knuckles would certainly be on hand. But the modern Mob is transforming itself, and two new character types are emerging: the college graduate in a tailored suit who wields nothing sharper than his felt-tip pen, and the "Signora Boss" who has stepped from the proverbial kitchen to the front lines of Italy's organized crime network. This face of the Mob may appear less violent but it's no less sinister, says Giuseppe Cipriani, who became mayor of the fabled Mafia stronghold, Corleone, in the wake of the assassination...