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...nationalism based on blood and soil. That holds particularly true for the main antagonists in the Yugoslav civil war. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, still nominally a socialist, has led his people to war in the name of a virulent ethnic nationalism that has nothing in common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal...
...world of allatonceness," he wrote. " 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in . . . a simultaneous happening." McLuhan underestimated the enduring appeal of the status quo and the stubborn persistence of the petty side of human nature. The fusion of television and satellites did not produce instantaneous brotherhood, just a slowly dawning awareness of the implications of a world transfixed by a single TV image...
Besides being the largest private-sector union in the U.S., the International Brotherhood of Teamsters has also been the most Mob influenced. Three of its past five presidents were sentenced to prison. In 1988 the Justice Department hit the union with a racketeering lawsuit. To settle the case, the union agreed to let the government monitor day-to-day operations and organize a secret-ballot election. In the past, a small group of union insiders had chosen the Teamster president...
Omerta. The code of silence for a sacred brotherhood. Well, fuhgedaboudit. Every time you turn around lately, a member of the Mafia is turning around: testifying at a trial, wearing a bug, writing a book. Whatever life omerta had left in its blood-drained body ebbed away last week with the stunning disclosure that Salvatore (Sammy Bull) Gravano, the most trusted adviser to reputed Gambino boss John Gotti, has become the Federal Government's latest protected flipster. If juries find him believable, Gravano could obliterate the entire hierarchy of the Gambinos, New York City's largest crime family with more...
...aren't you trying to stifle free speech, too?" you might ask. In a sense, I am. But only during the Friday service, which has always been a time for unity and fellowship. As the Holy Koran says, "The believers are but a single brotherhood." Today's Middle East situation is too divisive a topic for discussion during services...