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...traditional fourth-grade hoodoo. Remember having to stand up in front of the class telling the stupid stuff you did while school was out? Wallace Bleff is a kid who gets even by inventing a big story--in verse, no less--about being captured by cowboys: "The Cattle Boss growled as he told me to sit/ 'We need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told him, 'Okay.'" Great illustrations--funny, but not cutesy--by the author, who has drawn his buckaroos...
...provoked the war, with his nationalist speeches and calls for a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia, he was also the key to last week's peace agreement. U.S. diplomats knew his past but credited him nevertheless with pragmatism and a willingness to compromise. As the boss of Serbia, he could make decisions and cut deals on the spot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S NICKNAME--"the Boss"--never fit. True, "the Worker" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but ever since Springsteen burst on the music scene in the 1970s, his work has focused not on people who sign paychecks but on the guys and gals who have to make them stretch for a whole week. In the past few years, however, Springsteen has lost touch with his proletarian passions. Many of his most recent songs, such as Brilliant Disguise, 57 Channels (and Nothin' On) and Better Days, are more concerned with Springsteen's nouveau-riche guilt than...
Federal prosecutors obtained the racketeering conviction of a man they claim is Philadelphia's top Mob boss, John Stanfa. The guilty verdict, which could put Stanfa away for life, is the latest in a string of successful prosecutions that authorities say has severely weakened organized-crime families around the country...
...careful, measured testimony was somewhat compromised when the defense played a tape of an angry Maffia telling King over the phone, "I'm gonna kick your ass." On the other hand, King's assertion that he knew nothing about the alteration seemed disingenuous after his employees testified that their boss insisted on signing every check, some for as little...