Word: clan
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...taking over the Mafia a decade ago, he's managed to stay one step ahead of special police units, a team of magistrates and a reported j2.5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. In early August, police nabbed Pasquale Tegano, 49, leading boss of the Calabrian mob clan 'ndrangheta, but Provenzano remains untouchable. Authorities are still upbeat, though. When top Mob lieutenant and Provenzano associate Antonino Giuffré was captured two years ago and turned state's witness, a window was cracked open that provided a rare glimpse of how the man known as the Tractor...
...left the hospital...and drove to her house. Where better to confront the whole grieving clan? As the door opened I could hear a family member cry (and I mean cry), “This is incredible...
Arafat feels the heat; Sandy Berger and the 9/11 report; stumping with the Kerry-Heinz clan; female Governors provide a boost for the Dems; a library of Trump books; taking stock in Shrek...
...family of performing professionals. I was as close to the entertainment industry as my section of the Corliss clan got, And as a critic, of course, I?m basically a paid member of the audience - a voyeur, not an exhibitionist; a destroyer, not a creator. Yet the showbiz bug keeps infiltrating successive generations, keeps bringing them to New York. Derek is here now, waiting tables and taking courses as he and a friend hone their improv comedy act. His father, after a full career in the airline business, is now the executive director of a Denver-area symphony orchestra...
...Commanding Officer Mark Fitzsimmons, a genial and thoughtful man with a reassuring smile, has been with Customs since 1980. Navigating the narrow channel between Saibai Island, part of Australia, and mainland P.N.G., Fitzsimmons notes the stark differences in wealth among the inhabitants, who are essentially from the same clan. On Saibai, homes have electricity, a barge brings fresh food, and there are roads, street lights and cars. Two nautical miles north, there's not a light to be seen at night. "There are no luxuries there," says Fitzsimmons of the P.N.G. coastal villages. "It's subsistence living. The people...