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...mark of [a gang called] the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital)." Drauzio Varella had never heard of the pcc, but, he says, "this was just the first of many corpses marked in this way." Life behind bars, as described by the doctor in his bestselling memoir turned movie, Estação Carandiru, is defined by such brutal acts. With too few guards to keep order, prisoners establish their own forms of governance. The pcc, a prison football team that evolved into a criminal gang, has proved more ambitious than its rivals, not only seeking...
...Bush's cowboy-like threat certainly played well with the conservative base that the Republicans desperately need to turn out for the congressional midterm elections less than two months away. And Musharraf, promoting his memoir to be published next week, has to placate even more dangerous political enemies at home who have tried several times to assassinate him. But both men's blunt remarks sent their diplomatic minders scrambling...
...claim that Armitage threatened to bomb his country, Musharraf now says his publisher has told him to keep mum on that tidbit until his memoir hits the stores - probably the first time a foreign president has delivered a teaser for his book at a White House press conference...
...THIS CHAIR IS JUST RIGHT Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie kicks off a p.r. tour in support of his not-especially-tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...
...Page number from the hardback book A Million Little Pieces by James Frey that consumers must submit, with a receipt dated Jan. 26 or earlier, to get a $23.95 refund $2.35 million Restitution-in refunds, legal fees and charitable gifts-Frey, who made up portions of his best-selling memoir, and his publisher Random House will...