Word: mafia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...president of your local Dukes of Hazzard fanclub, like Bill from Season 1? If these aren’t your areas of expertise, never fear. You may discover talents you never knew you had, like Will from Season 4, who won the autobiographical rap challenge judged by Three 6 Mafia. 2. You will shed light on your life’s work, including your embarrassing acting credits. Season 4’s “big twist” was the addition of a female geek/male beauty team. Oh, the possibilities! Things only improved when I realized that creepy...
Damaris was one of the dancers who used to perform with our band--more than 40 years after the Mafia quit Havana, some Cubans still like their music accompanied by girls in slinky sequined outfits with tail feathers. Damaris and the drummer, Piri, wound up having a daughter together but eventually divorced. He moved to Mexico, found a new wife and had another child. So Damaris is raising their child alone in a small apartment in the shadow of the capitol...
Over the summer, President Felipe Calderón's antidrug czar, Noe Ramirez, resigned abruptly. The likely reason became apparent this week after Ramirez was detained by federal officials and accused of taking $450,000 to keep Mexico's most powerful narco mafia, the Sinaloa Cartel, informed about police antidrug operations. He is the highest-ranking government official to be nabbed in this year's anticorruption sweep. (See pictures of crime-fighting in Mexico City...
Titling your article on wealthy gay people and their political funding "A Gay Mafia" was a mistake [Nov. 10]. Mafia implies illegality. I am a gay Italian Democratic donor, and I was offended. Linda Sartori, JUPITER...
...trying to meet and influence politicians makes gay political donors a mafia, what do we call the endless parade of oil executives, Wall Street bankers and other rich, white, straight men and women who do the same? The struggle for civil rights may have progressed from the streets to the statehouse, but it is clear that TIME's coverage hasn't kept up. Eric Peterson, ORONO, MAINE...