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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...past 20 years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Don | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...daughter of St. Peter's parish in Dorchester, Mass., delivers such a wicked funny impression of the deep patrician voice that was on the other end of the line when she picked up the phone at home one Friday night last November. "Mary Beth," she says, tucking her chin, locking her jaw and dropping a register or two, "this is John Kerry." Mary Beth Cahill knew why he was calling. The presidential candidate whom everyone had once anointed the Democratic front runner was careering toward oblivion. Kerry was about to fire his campaign manager and wanted Senator Edward Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Miracle Worker | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...Cambridge and Sifers headed north. That became even clearer in the first period of Harvard’s visit to Vermont last season, when Hafner—with a six-inch height advantage—caught Sifers with his shoulder, opening a cut on his friend’s chin...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Old Friends Meet as Foes in First Round of Tourney | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...their boyfriends on his friends list. With 414 friends and counting, Jermaine Beatty ’04 clearly just spends his days sitting by his laptop indiscriminately friending people in the faint hope they might accidentally click “accept” as they reach to scratch their chin quizzically while futilely scanning their mental facebook for the name Jermaine Beatty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

Sometimes a patient can appear to do everything right but still end up paying the ultimate price. For her chin tuck, a procedure generally characterized as routine, Goldsmith chose the best board-certified plastic surgeon royalties could buy and had the operation at a respected hospital but still had a bad reaction to anesthesia. Her death was not necessarily related to plastic surgery; it might very well have happened during an emergency appendectomy. It did, however, cause a momentary flutter in the plastic-surgery community. Doctors across Florida, California and New York said they received a few concerned calls from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At What Cost Beauty? | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

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