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...lograron una audiencia de 3.4 millones de espectadores en el estadio. La mayor parte de esta temporada el equipo, que Moreno bautiz? como Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim para ampliar el atractivo del equipo m?s all? del condado de Orange, ha quedado en primer lugar. ?Es una cosa tener la habilidad de comprar un equipo de b?isbol?, dice Moreno, de 59 a?os. ?Pero m?s importante es, ?Respetas de verdad la oportunidad...
...would seem, the family business in favor of reality television. His perversely entertaining show on A&E, “Growing Up Gotti,” features John and his brothers (a.k.a. “the Hotti Gottis”) living with their mother in the shadow of the Cosa Nostra. But let’s hope Bill Fitzsimmons happened to miss episode three this summer, when John called his mother a “bitch” during an argument over an unauthorized tattoo memorializing his grandfather. Yes, that grandfather...
...into position in the rugged hills around Mezzojuso, a sleepy town 40 km south of Palermo. For months, investigators had been casing a red-roofed concrete house where they believed top Mafia bosses were planning an important lunchtime summit. Benedetto Spera, among the most feared and powerful figures in Cosa Nostra, was also scheduled to get a doctor's visit at the hillside farmhouse that day to treat his prostate cancer. The summit was considered so important that authorities suspected Bernardo Provenzano, the Sicilian Mafia's boss of bosses, might even make an appearance. Just after 10 a.m., when...
...third-grade education, transformed the organization into a less bloody, more efficient economic machine. He is credited with ironing out internal rivalries among local bosses to better divvy up the Mafia's illegal bidding for public-works contracts. It has earned him one more nickname: "the Accountant." Provenzano manages Cosa Nostra by means of terse notes typed onto small, tightly folded pieces of paper, known as pizzini, which are hand-delivered. Some 50 such notes have so far been retrieved. Since sending his wife and two sons back to his native town of Corleone in 1992, his communication with them...
...Centuries before La Cosa Nostra was heard of in the U.S., the Mafia operated?even as it does today?as a brigand government in much of Sicily. Though many Italian immigrants had come to the U.S. to avoid just such oppression as the Mafia offers, a few among them formed a new Mafia in the new country. In the crowded 'Little Italys' of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential...