Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famed dictum, happens twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Haitians experienced tragedy in November when soldiers and thugs murdered some 50 people and halted the country's first free presidential elections in 30 years. When the polls opened again last week, the result was closer to farce. The country's four leading populist candidates refused to run, and less than 10% of Haiti's 3 million voters turned out for the election, which was held amid a boycott called by opposition leaders. Election officials examined each vote before dropping it in the box. Ballot stuffing...
...real tragedy of all this fury is that neither side is any closer to settling the violent struggle for the same cherished rocks and hills. Israelis and Palestinians, except for the extremists among them, know that only a political compromise can end the agony. But neither side possesses the courage to begin. And so the Palestinians seem destined to continue futilely flinging stones, while the Israelis remain committed to fighting back with bullets. And time keeps slipping away...
...recognize him. He remains solid for a guy of advancing middle age, even if there is a little thickening around the middle, some slackening under the firm jawline. Sartorially, as ever, his daywear is conservative, the evening wear outrageous: long flowing cape, high midnight-blue boots, tights that fit closer than epidermis and, across his chest, the shadow of a black bat, ascendant...
...probably the closest Pistone came to being unmasked and "whacked" (killed) during the five years that he posed as Jewel Thief Donnie Brasco with the Bonanno and Colombo crime families. When he emerged from under cover in 1981, he was closer than any previous outsider to the inner sanctum of the Mafia...
...credibility he had to participate in such activities as unloading stolen trucks and buying stolen guns. "What would happen, I thought, if I'm out with Sonny and Lefty and we get caught in a battle," he recalls. The situation never arose, but as he came closer to being initiated into the Mob, he was given a contract by Sonny Black to kill a fellow Mafioso. Before Pistone could run the mobster to earth, the FBI ended the operation, and on July 26, 1981, Agent Pistone came in from the heat...