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...difficulty in purging organized crime is that the Mob remains very efficient at ironing out labor disputes. In 1986, for example, local Teamster officials brought a beef to former Philadelphia mobster Nicholas ("the Crow") Caramandi. The officials, Caramandi recalls today, were upset because a Laborers Union local was monopolizing certain work at Philadelphia's Civic Center. The Mob warned the Laborers to back off, and they did. "If they don't listen, you might have to whack ((execute)) them, maybe throw someone out a window," explains Caramandi, who has since entered the Federal Witness Protection Program...
INTERVIEW Nicholas ("The Crow") Caramandi on life...
Several students found some of his comments on slavery and recent Black history objectionable. They said he had painted a benevolent picture of slavery and had said that Jim Crow laws benefitted Blacks...
...finished my taxes today, which isn't much to crow about when you consider that they were my 1989 taxes. (Hope to finish 1990 next week. Big job. Been busy...
During a recent class, for example, Bunker had the students do the 'crow walk.' "Make some sounds that remind you of a crow," she suggested to her class. And the students got down on the balls of their feet, squawking and creeping around the red wrestling mats like scavenging birds...