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...That's because it's a pretty standard celebrity drama. In the beginning he was a tall, devastatingly handsome young man, with a polite, soft-spoken gift for ingratiation. This he employed to worm his way into the confidence of the Hell's Angels, the outlaw motorcycle gang, becoming a participant-observer in their rites and rituals and writing about them acutely in what I think remains his best book. There followed his Fear and Loathing books about Las Vegas and the political campaign of 1972. These books had their moments, of course, but there was something hysterical about...
...Obama usually left a winner. But he reaped a bigger payoff politically. When he announced his plans to run for the U.S. Senate, his poker pals - white guys from small-town Illinois - were among his earliest supporters. Link says the Wednesday-night gang didn't realize how far Obama would go: "Nobody said, 'Mr. President, it's your deal.' " But Obama's risk-averse, methodical approach to five-card stud gives Link confidence in his potential governing style. "If he runs his presidency the way he plays poker, I'll sleep good at night," he says...
...city of Wellington, part of Palm Beach County. The two, along with at least one other person, allegedly concocted a plan in February to buy 55 townhomes in Fort Lauderdale, inflate their values and establish "straw borrowers" whose incomes were pumped up to qualify for the big loans. The gang reportedly hoped to make as much as $8 million in profits after they got the loans and then abandoned the homes to foreclosure...
...senior thesis, Beck spent time in Tokyo riding with a biker gang of high school drop-outs to investigate Japanese juvenile delinquency. He said that the significance of the Hoopes Prize was uncertain at the time, since the new award was fairly unknown...
...news came crackling over the radio, the voice fading in and out as the sound waves bounced through the wooded hills and valleys of central India to the camp where the militants - and a TIME photographer and myself - lay down to sleep. Earlier that day in May, a raiding gang of some 300 Maoist insurgents had attacked a plant belonging to Indian steel giant Essar, the radio news program declared. More than 50 trucks and pieces of heavy machinery had been destroyed. The commander of the unit in the camp that night, Deva, a boyish-looking man of just...