Word: clan
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Joseph Massino, the restaurant's operator, is an important part of the family. The Family. The Mafia; the Mob; La Cosa Nostra. The FBI says--and his defense lawyer does not contest--that Massino is head of the Bonanno clan, one of the Five Families of crime incorporated by Lucky Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison...
...last year, swimming in the pool was permanently banned. Kakadu's 15-member management board, which includes 10 traditional owners, says swimming at Twin Falls is too risky. "There is a lot of responsibility on Aboriginal people about all this," says Jessie Alderson, a traditional owner from the Murumburr clan. But the ban has been attacked by some tour operators and local politicians, who see it as an opportunistic attempt to lock up Kakadu. With moves due to hand 30 Territory parks back to traditional owners, the Twin Falls issue has touched a nerve...
Jessie Alderson says Aboriginal people welcome tourism: "We like tourists coming here because they bring a lot of money into the park." But Jeffrey Lee, a traditional owner from the Djok clan, says, "We are still really sad about the death of that German tourist and we want to make sure people are safe." Isabel von Jordan was killed by a crocodile in a Kakadu billabong in 2002; her group's tour guide had told them they could ignore warning signs. "If that attack" - the first fatal one in the park in 15 years - "hadn't happened, we'd still...
...proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff poses? of Aborigines like clan leader Wonggu: lively, strong people, clearly at ease with the photographer. Back in Melbourne, Thomson urged segregation for the region - to no avail, despite his warnings about European and Japanese fishermen bringing alcohol and encouraging prostitution. In 1942 he returned north to set up a secret reconnaissance unit to watch...
...curse.) We leave for another day the debate over whether a film is anti-Jewish if it repeats a line swathed in 18 to 20 centuries of Gospel tradition. Anyway, in the Pasolini film, with Italians chasing Italians, the curse seems one not of race or religion but of clan. Besides, Pasolini, a poet before he was a filmmaker, would be unlikely to excise a controversial line from a text he felt bound to honor...