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...most recent victory came last February in the industrial town of Vitrolles, whose 40,000 residents, some 20% of foreign origin, have been devastated by unemployment. Bruno Megret, 48, the Front's No. 2 leader, now wields de facto power there. (His wife Catherine officially ran in his place after he was disqualified for overspending on his campaign. ) Megret, a cold technocrat who hopes to succeed the aging Le Pen as party leader, was set back by his failure to win a parliamentary seat. But he is determined to make Vitrolles a showcase both for his own administrative skills...
Like Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy, Underboss is fascinating for its anthropologically detailed portrait of a subculture some of us can't get enough of, Al Pacino or no Al Pacino. Both Gravano and Maas (author previously of The Valachi Papers) claim Gravano will get no money from this de facto memoir. But why a man who recently left the federal witness-protection program would want to draw such attention to himself is a mystery. Maybe, given his gift for aphorism, he's thinking about going out on the corporate lecture circuit. "There's enough people to shoot in the head...
...nation's most repugnant pornographers. Controversy in literature might mean writing a memoir about the affair you had with your father when you were in your 20s. In television, which functions not just as a business and debased art form but also as an increasingly fractured nation's de facto mirror of itself, the threshold is much lower. Controversy could mean starring in a sitcom as a gently scatterbrained former bookstore owner who, after years of adult floundering, reluctantly comes to a realization about her homosexuality and begins to take a few hesitant baby steps out of the closet...
...dehumanizing practice of legalized segregation is gone, but the de facto segregation of the American community persists. In fact, the reason the three white teens beat Lenard Clark is that he had transgressed the bounds of tacit segregation that many whites in Bridgeport are trying to enforce. After carrying out their enforcement they boasted of having "taken care of the niggers." Tragically, it has been 34 years since Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream: instead of little black boys holding hands with little white boys, the latter are still beating the former. It was not so long...
Robert Guen, a Chinese-American former Boston School Committee Member and self-described "de facto spokesperson for the Asian community"--says some Asian-Americans do consider the exam schools' admission policy to be unfair...