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...Massino trial is the latest--and, the feds hope, final--chapter in a century-old soap opera that began in the early '30s with Luciano's anointing of Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno, then just 26, to rein in one of New York's warring crime gangs and sit on the newly formed Mafia Commission (Bonanno died in 2002 at 97). Bonanno's son Bill, 72, admits he ran the family for a brief, chaotic period in the '60s (true) and claims that he and his father were Mario Puzo's inspiration for Michael and Vito Corleone (debatable). He subscribes...
...speech in Detroit came the same day that the National Urban League released its State of Black America report, which includes a chapter by Ogletree...
...advocated attacking American targets, but their position has been in the minority. Hamas leaders had wanted to maintain their independence and also to profit from the wider Arab sympathy engendered by its position as an exclusively Palestinian-national movement targeting the Israelis (as opposed to becoming just another local chapter of Osama bin Laden's global jihad). The movement's headquarters is in Damascus, which despite its frosty relations with the U.S. remains deeply hostile to al-Qaeda, and its precarious position viz-a-viz U.S. power would make it reluctant to allow its Palestinian "guests" to openly threaten terror...
...Critics Claim Huntington Is Xenophobic,” March 16). My book is not about immigration but about American national identity. Immigration clearly has played a role in shaping that identity, but Mexican immigration, which the article emphasizes, is dealt with in one chapter out of twelve. The book argues that Americans have historically defined their identity in terms of four major components: race (white) which involved the enslavement, subordination and segregation of blacks, the massacre of Indians and the exclusion of Asians; ethnicity (British and then Northern European) which led to the mutual...
Director Patty Jenkins’s debut feature, Monster chronicles the sanguinous final chapter of infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos and the personal trials that may have led to her murder of seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Theron’s performance is breakthrough work, painstakingly recreating the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core...