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Longtime chief of staff Sheila Burke, who shared Dole's skepticism, recalls informing her boss on New Year's Day that another government shutdown was imminent. Dole turned to her, furious, "Did it ever occur to anybody that there are people out there who live paycheck to paycheck?" Dole spun away, saying to no one in particular, "This is the last time." And it was. On Jan. 2 he walked onto the Senate floor in the morning and just ended it. He didn't tell anyone. Didn't call anyone in the leadership. Didn't use any of the mechanisms...
Based on the book Gotti: Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, as well as on FBI surveillance-tape transcripts and press accounts, Gotti the movie gives us the former Gambino crime-family boss as a Puzo-esque romantic, a faux plumbing-supply salesman who longs for the days when the Cosa Nostra had real structure, when family loyalty meant something, when the Mafia wasn't so enthusiastically in the business of mergers and acquisitions. "You got a worldwide crime syndicate now," the imprisoned don, played by Armand Assante, bemoans at the end of the film. "There...
...HISTORY OF THE ADVENTURES OF MR. ROSS PEROT AND HIS CURIOUS QUEST TO BE BOSS...
...cable network August 17 (9 p.m. EDT). In fact, he says it more often -->