Word: mafiosi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last two Ripley novels are slack, ungainly; Ripley is more prey than predator. But the first three (recently issued in a hardcover omnibus by Knopf/Everyman's Library) have the tone of high, dark comedy. Tom kills--Dickie, Dickie's pal Freddie Miles, an American art lover, a bunch of mafiosi--as much for the game of eluding capture as for motives of profit or survival. In Ripley's Game he gets an ailing man involved in a murder plot only because the man once spoke abruptly to Tom. Then, when the man desperately tries to kill a Mafia goon...
Gerald Minsk used to drop acid and smoke pot to help quell paranoid delusions that Boston's North End mafiosi were conspiring against him. Yes, it's crazy to take hallucinogens to soothe your hallucinations. But that's what untreated mental illness does to you. It can also leave you jobless and sleeping under the Boston University bridge. That's what happened to Minsk, anyway, in the 1970s. For years, his bipolar disorder was virtually ignored as he cycled in and out of jails, mental hospitals and community centers, none of which took the time, or had the resources...
...step campaign. He would threaten to bomb employers' trucks if they didn't enroll in his union. Then he carried out the threat. It got results. His organizers took a cut of the dues and initiation fees of every new member. It was a franchise scheme that attracted Mafiosi and created a feudal structure of warlords...
While Reuther embraced politics, Hoffa simply bought influence, paying off policemen, prosecutors and anyone else who stood in the way. His image was cemented forever in 1975 when Hoffa went to a Detroit restaurant to meet several Mafiosi and never returned. He is still revered by members who say they owe their place in the middle class to him, and his legacy lives on. The results of the election campaign his son James P. has waged for his father's old job are expected this month...
...memo written by Intel VP Steven McGeady, the government?s latest witness, in which "Gates made vague threats of support for other platforms," and you have allegations strikingly similar to those leveled by Apple and Netscape. Whatever the final outcome, Redmond will find it hard to shake the mafiosi image...