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...world where intelligence matters, but not the knowledge of academic study: a world where the gang's driver Mickey finds his creative outlet "all in his meaty hands," where the perfectionist henchman Irving displays his careful and precise competence in dirty dealings and where mathematical whiz Abbadabba Berman converts life into numbers...

Author: By Samantha L. Heller, | Title: A Rhythmic Tale of a Young Gangster's Life | 2/21/1989 | See Source »

...priced corporate lawyer who subtly guides his client to "choose" the option the lawyer intended from the start. "Everything was couched in the most mild way so as to let Bush make the final decisions," says one of the campaign's senior advisers. "It was always 'Hey, Bushie, the gang here thinks you ought to do thus and such -- but only if it conforms to your own thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing for the Edge | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

Dodd is the True Believer in Joseph Ruben's latest film. The movie follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Not Just a 9-to-5 Job | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

Gotti was a few blocks from a club he had left in Little Italy, when more than 25 New York City police arrested him. Another phalanx of FBI agents and officers stood by, just in case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Big Problem For Big John | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Mubarak said that Shamir should not fear that Arab states will gang up on Israel during negotiations. "Frankly speaking," he said, "I wonder why he fears an international conference. It will lead immediately to direct negotiations," as Shamir demands. Shamir is now suggesting he might countenance U.N. sponsorship to launch peace talks, but he remains firmly opposed to any more substantive international participation. In a separate interview in Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens explained why. At an international conference, he said, "there's the danger of having pressure applied to you, not by the party with whom you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Contemplating the Next Step | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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