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...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...
Because they are both Catholic, Italian-American conservative federal judges who hail from Trenton, N.J., Alito and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have often been viewed as brothers in arms--so much so that Alito earned the nickname Scalito among many court watchers. But the comparison is misleading. Throughout Alito's career--from his time as an Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned...
Every Tuesday night, the basement bar of Annex Restaurant, a quaint Italian-American diner just outside the Princeton campus, enjoys a sudden influx of customers as soon as West and Glaude’s three-hour graduate seminar on the African-American intellectual tradition lets out. It’s a group of students about 15 strong, and West comes out with them every week. The crowd takes up four or five tables, and they’ve never missed a week as long as class has been in session...
...Alito's friends hate the nickname "Scalito," which they contend was conferred by the media, and is generally used as an unflattering or dismissive reference to positions Alito holds in common with his fellow conservative Catholic Italian-American, Justice Antonin Scalia. Alito is perhaps a non-threatening version of Scalia-he's certainly in the justice's camp, but not as combative. Adam Ciongoli, a corporate lawyer who was counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft, was a clerk to Alito and said he is humble and approachable. "He always reminded the clerks, particularly new ones, that they had to remember...
...that Mallozzi is a simple person. From the very beginning of her life, she’s had to grapple with the frustration of an unclear cultural identity. Mallozzi grew up in rural Ohio as the child of a Chinese-born mother and an Italian-American father. “There were no minorities [where I grew up],” she recounts. “So we were considered very exotic, even though I was half-Chinese, and my mom didn’t even speak Chinese...