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...gradually worked his way up through the ranks doing contract killings and hijacking trucks before blasting his way onto the big stage in the early 1980s. After ordering a very public hit on boss Paul Castellano in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1985, Gotti assumed control of the Gambino family. He reigned as boss from 1986-1992, and during those years he became the city’s most notorious media-darling, mainly because federal prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses...
Similarly, some of Gotti’s former legal allies sought to glorify the Don’s memory. His lawyer and longtime confidant Bruce Cutler described the late boss to New York Newsday as “[a] most remarkable human being who was a champion in my book.” Defense attorney Ronald Kuby, who handled some of Gotti’s post-conviction legal matters, stressed to Newsday that “John Gotti had the same skills as the CEO of any large, successful corporation. He had that sort of touch where he remembered names...
...Arab newspaper that the Administration was leaning toward early recognition (which TIME reported in April), Bush's spokesman Ari Fleischer responded icily, "The Secretary, from time to time, will reflect on the advice that he gets and do so publicly." Powell, never known for getting ahead of his boss, has been more aggressive than usual, driving the process since early April, when Bush backed off his demand that the Palestinians end all terrorist attacks before political issues could be discussed. But the infighting is growing intense again; the Cheney-Rumsfeld approach minimizes concessions to Palestinians to avoid encouraging further terrorist...
DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, swaggering celebrity gangster known as the Dapper Don, the ruthless yet always impeccably groomed boss of the Gambino crime family; of throat cancer; in the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had been serving a life sentence on murder and racketeering charges. The former juvenile delinquent from the South Bronx relished the spotlight, favoring $2,000 suits and tony restaurants, smirking throughout his four trials and winning populist-hero status in the tabloids. Although he had always claimed to be a $100,000- a-year plumbing salesman from Ozone Park, N.Y., Gotti was convicted...
...oddest acts on the world cup stage has been the sideline shadow play between Philippe Troussier, Japan's French manager, and Florent Dabadie, his inseparable translator. Dabadie, 27, has the soul of a mime. Instead of merely interpreting Troussier's pearls of wisdom, he mimics the boss's every move. "It's about being Philippe Troussier," says Dabadie. "The players don't look at him when he's talking, they look at me." The theatrical Frenchman admits he sometimes edits Troussier's monologues so the coach doesn't "appear as if he is uneducated. Like the other day, he started...