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...spirit certainly derives much of its power from the success of the Bruins' topranked team, but 10 NCAA championship banners are not a prerequisite for fan support. At the University of Massachusetts, a band of basketball fans has its own set of rituals. The "40-Minute Gang" sports orange pep shirts, white painters caps and painted faces for each Minuteman home game...
DIED. Meyer Lansky, 81, Florida-based mobster long regarded as the financial genius of U.S. organized crime; of cancer; in Miami Beach. Graduate of a Prohibition-era gang, the Russian-born Lansky became a top adviser to Mafia Leader Lucky Luciano. He later held the gambling franchise for Havana and, as the Mob's leading banker, had the task of laundering, investing and concealing its growing treasure. In the early days, Luciano used to marvel at the ability of his studious Jewish colleague to fathom the nuances of the Sicilian mind...
...work, with suffused lighting and a gray, ominous mist that hangs over the characters like a nuclear cloud. But there is verve sparking all of Gothar's calculation, and his young actors (notably Sandor Soth and Maria Ronyecz) prove as adept at miming edgy idealism as any gang outside Hollywood High. A few weeks ago, Time Stands Still was deemed best foreign-language film of 1982 by the New York Film Critics Circle. It is certainly one of the sleekest and easiest to enjoy...
...Dole, 46, explaining how they keep apart their personal and political lives. "You really have to have that basis." Besides, she adds, "there may be something at the White House being discussed that's not ready to be discussed on Capitol Hill." It works both ways. When the "Gang of 17," a bipartisan group of lawmakers and senior White House aides, was working behind closed doors last year on budget proposals for the President, Senator Dole told his wife: "Elizabeth, I'm not going to be able to talk to you about what we're doing...
Jack and Jill turned their light off and tiptoed around the corner to Jack's home base on the same floor, Carrel # 164. (They learned later that the gang of five, seeing most of the lights in the building on and guards prowling, had given them up for lost...