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...Massino fenced merchandise, from Kodak cameras to electric appliances, that workers stole from the platforms and loaded onto his truck. By the '70s, he had allegedly expanded his operation into a truck-hijacking racket. With connections at airports and on the waterfront, say feds, he and his crew would flag down trucks, usually prearranged "give-ups" with the O.K. of the drivers. He once scored 2,000 cases of Chicken of the Sea, another time 500 cartons of Mitsubishi sneakers...
Eliot’s flag hung from the rafters above the team’s cheering section, and though the Cabot fan base was smaller in numbers, it sounded just as loud...
...Eliot has their flag,” Voltaire said with a smile. “I think we’re doing a good job. We’ve got a lot of supporters...
...council has regained its credibility. Should the council ever make a conscious funding decision based on a magazine’s content? We might, of course, play the ad absurdum game where I suggest Harvard Students for the Confederacy apply for a grant for a “Confederate Flag Day,” or worse, in order to arrive at a suggestion the council would rebuff because of content. (Incidentally, I imagine such an event would have, for many of the reasons H Bomb will, a “high projected student impact...
...relationship with the camera may still be fresh, but Zhao has had her troubles. Her rapport with mainland movie audiences was badly strained in 2001 when a fashion magazine published a photo of her wearing a dress with a pattern that resembled a Japanese flag from World War II. During a concert shortly after the photo appeared, Zhao was attacked and smeared with feces by Fu Shenghua, a construction worker whose grandparents were killed during Japan's wartime occupation of China. "I know what I did wasn't right," Fu told China's Da Gong magazine. "But I believe...