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...many ways, Gotti’s story was quite similar to Capone’s. Born the fifth of 13 children to poor parents in the South Bronx, he was, in the words of author Luc Sante, “a pure product of the slums.” His father was an unskilled worker who was constantly unemployed, and the family remained mired in poverty throughout his childhood...
...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 in 1992 with the help...
Spitzer, who grew up in the fancy Riverdale section of the Bronx and went to Princeton and Harvard Law School, first made a name for himself as an assistant district attorney prosecuting members of the Gambino crime family. "His jaw actually juts," the New York Times once wrote. And while his work and ambition have elicited comparisons with Rudy Giuliani, who came to prominence with high-profile insider-trading cases during the 1980s, Spitzer says, "Notice the difference--I didn't take anybody out in handcuffs...
...prejudice is for a Harvard College,” Bender wrote, “with a certain range and mixture and diversity in the student body—a college with some snobs and some Scandinavian farm boys who skate beautifully and some bright Bronx pre-meds, with some students who care passionately if unwisely…about editing The Crimson or beating Yale...
...aging rock band in its 40th year to compensate for fears of seeming to be over the hill. To announce yet another world tour, the ROLLING STONES ruled out issuing a press release. Instead, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards invited journalists to stand in a Bronx, N.Y., park as the band members hovered overhead for 20 minutes in a neon-yellow dirigible before disembarking to hold a press conference. The tour will kick off Sept. 5 in Boston, and the Stones hope to end in China, where they have never played. They also plan to release...