Word: mafiosi
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...lawsuit, filed recently in federal court in New York City, the E.U. charges that Italian mafiosi, Colombian cocaine dealers and Saddam Hussein's eldest son have all profited from illegal sales of RJR cigarettes--with the willing participation of the company, which reaped millions of dollars in illicit sales. The 149-page complaint names RJR executives who allegedly met with money launderers, and it lists the Swiss bank accounts used for payment...
...agreement with Turkey and Azerbaijan to build an oil pipeline to the West that completely bypasses Russia. When the film's director and male lead, Murad Mazayev, a 25-year-old exile from the Chechen capital of Grozny, was filming in Pankisi, his main concerns were squaring the local mafiosi and allaying the fears of his actresses. His 35-minute feature aims to tell the story of the second Chechnya war through one family. The oldest son, Mikail, doesn't fall into the usual Chechen warrior stereotype - the film hints at a love of drawing - but nonetheless leaves his village...
...Junior Common Room be open? Would the TV turn on (mind you, I live in Quincy)? And, most importantly, would the room be free of conscientious objectors? I trembled at the notion of puritanical types who might object to watching a dysfunctional family of murderous and blasphemous crack-peddling Mafiosi...
...University of Palermo has given out its share of degress to mobsters' sons in recent years. Professor Giovanni Santangelo, vice-rector at the university, said the Mafia's move into the mainstream makes it both more invisible and more powerful. "The sons of mafiosi today, with rare exception, are all white-collar. They are programmed to be so." Santangelo says that in the past, university degrees were turned into law careers to provide a small army of legal defenders. "They've already got enough lawyers. They're diversifying," he says, into public fund administrators (to dip into billions of dollars...
...Mafiosi, of course, do not punctuate their conversation with "Allah is great!" and "Praise Allah!" The bin Laden home movie mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself...