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...Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes at all levels." The man thought to be responsible for smartening up the Mafia quit school at age 10. Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood buddy from Corleone, Riina, was arrested in 1993 and subsequently sentenced for masterminding the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations. (Last week Italy's top appeals court annulled the convictions of 13 mafiosi who had also been found guilty of Falcone's murder and ordered retrials.) Investigators say that Provenzano - who has been...
Cuban has usually managed to get to the economics ever since his boyhood in Mount Lebanon, Pa., a Pittsburgh suburb, where his father was a car upholsterer. An avid basketball player, Cuban wanted a fancy pair of Puma sneakers, but his dad wouldn't pay. So Cuban, then 12, sold garbage bags door to door to raise the cash. He was a box boy at the local grocer and worked the meat slicer at a deli and at the canteen at a summer camp. To pay his way through Indiana University, he gave disco-dancing lessons, rented the Bloomington National...
...slide might have stung a little, but hope for a storybook ending was not lost. Crockett was a local product, hailing Topsfield, Mass, and the Red Sox were his boyhood team. The “local boy makes good” angle was made-to-order—all Crockett needed was a contract...
...young males to come forward while the abuse is going on. "The last thing I want to do as a teenager is run around telling everybody some priest gave me a b___ j__," says John Falls, a grown-up Californian who says he was molested by his boyhood priest. Says Neil Blake, a New Mexico lawyer litigating abuse cases: "I don't know if priests are still out there molesting kids, because they won't tell anyone about it. We'll find out in about...
...when they're coming out and whether they'll try to extract revenge," says Orlando, 38, Jean's youngest brother. Orlando lives upstairs in his mother's house because, he says, he feels he has to look after her. He has created his own immaculate world out of his boyhood room. Between the Smurf doll and the baseball trophies he has set up a big-screen TV and framed photos of his family. When he quietly leaves each day for his job running a city recreation center, he locks his bedroom door. He has never told Jean that he disapproves...