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...Godfather Cho has done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping...
...critical October by-elections. Newspapers and opposition politicians have hinted for months?without providing evidence?that Yeo was trying to bribe pols in the President's party to help a businessman from Cholla province, Kim's home region. Yeo was convicted a decade ago of running the biggest gang in the Cholla city of Kwangju...
...Sonatine (1991), Kitano Man had matured, or wizened, into its now-familiar form: the gang-war veteran who can be impressed or surprised by nothing. He doesn't act out of an awesome rage, like a Pacino or DeNiro hero. He isn't exorcising personal demons, channeling anger against, say, his uncaring parents, or giving an unjust society the dynamite stick up the butt that it deserves. Freud and Lenin are not on his bookshelves. Kitano Man is just doing what he's supposed to?what he, the killing machine, is designed for. A gangster's life, like...
...offenses to Cronje's. And the International Cricket Council's new anti-corruption unit is investigating a veritable roll call of cricket luminaries. Within a game that once prided itself on gentlemanly conduct, reaction ranges from concern to misery. Says former Indian captain Bishen Bedi: "The game has been gang-raped...
...wife for $400,000 in insurance money--as being "real nice." He came in for lunch. Smith and her boss Darby Howard remember their tattoos--and, in alleged ringleader George Rivas' case, a fresh-orange hairdo. But Tres Hombres sees lots of people with mohawks and piercings. The Gang of Seven blended...