Word: mafiosi
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...happy to accept salaries ($300 per month, paid by the U.S., not the Iraqi government) from the men they once hoped to kill. They are nominally under American supervision but increasingly operate with a high degree of autonomy. The Sahwa are one part vigilante and two parts mafiosi, but like the walls, they too serve a purpose. In Sahwa-protected neighborhoods like al-Dora, Adhamiyah and Amariyah, sectarian killings are way down...
...house west of Palermo. "The Lo Piccolos were still in the phase of conquering territory, which required them to constantly make contacts, to be present in first person, to be operative," Angeloni explains. For too long in Sicily, the competition for territory has been fought solely among power-hungry mafiosi. Lately the state has shown tenacious ambitions of its own, but the battle is sure...
They have nicknames like cartoon characters. But Marcola, Starfruit and Macarroni - the men Brazilian authorities believe ordered the most shocking weekend of violence in Sao Paulo's history - are no laughing matter. They're the mafiosi who run the First Command of the Capital (PCC), Sao Paulo's predominant organized crime faction. And now they've proved they are shrewd, ruthless and powerful enough to bring a place like Sao Paulo, Brazil's most important state and South America's largest city, to its knees with just a phone call from their jail cells. Just as important, the five...
...movie ambitions of Christopher (Michael Imperioli). (Though it does deliver funny lines: Chris describes his screenplay idea as "Saw meets Godfather II.") And subplots involving fundamentalist Christians and a superstar rapper are tendentious and cardboard. (The latter recalls a season-one story about how hip-hop culture fetishes mafiosi...
With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...