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...enthusiasm and a prayer. The danger to the candidate was palpable. A platoon of Indian soldiers flanked him, edgily scanning the crowd and fingering their self-loading rifles, which they wielded for his protection. Merely by running as a moderate separatist in Kashmir's state assembly elections, the dapper 52-year-old has captured wild popularity. But as the letter he received that morning threatened, Sofi would be well advised to withdraw from the contest. Otherwise, warned the letter, in the name of Allah the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful, he would wind up dead. The threats aren't idle...
...seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when negotiating his contract, "I'm rich in an embarrassing...
...mobster died of head and neck cancer at the U.S. Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. John Gotti, age 61, was the Big Apple’s most identifiable gangster during the late 1980s. After being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992, the so-called “Dapper Don” had achieved an almost mythical status in American popular culture...
That being said, we must never forget exactly who John Gotti was. His Alger-esque rise to fame and fortune shouldn’t blind us to the reality that the Dapper Don was a really just a depraved gangster. He may have been New York’s favorite criminal, but he is definitely not a New York hero...
DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, swaggering celebrity gangster known as the Dapper Don, the ruthless yet always impeccably groomed boss of the Gambino crime family; of throat cancer; in the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. He had been serving a life sentence on murder and racketeering charges. The former juvenile delinquent from the South Bronx relished the spotlight, favoring $2,000 suits and tony restaurants, smirking throughout his four trials and winning populist-hero status in the tabloids. Although he had always claimed to be a $100,000- a-year plumbing salesman from Ozone Park, N.Y., Gotti was convicted...