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...Sharing the sheets with J.F.K. seems to have become a badge of honor - and perhaps a route to publishing riches. But beware of boasting or true confessions: I've never met anybody who was a witness in the bedroom. It is all circumstantial - or was, until Judith Exner, the Mob moll who wrote it down and changed everything. (See pictures of JFK's early years...
...tons of rubbish piled up around the city. The fires forced the closures of schools and outdoor markets and prompted some residents to don surgical masks. Most garbage service returned to normal by week's end, but the crisis renewed attention to the so-called "eco-Mafia," the Mob's alleged responsibility for ecological damage caused by its grip on public infrastructure such as toxic-waste disposal and water distribution. Organized-crime clans throughout southern Italy have obtained a sizeable chunk of public works services, often by bidding through a front company. Once contracts are obtained, environmental activists say, Mob...
...rebels, for their part, accuse Indonesia's military of sponsoring fresh violence - which has killed nearly 50 people in the past month - to scuttle negotiations and crush the uprising for good. Two offices for international monitors stationed in the country were attacked in April. Witnesses claim a mob of about 500 Javanese who set fire to the Joint Security Committee office in Langsa arrived in army trucks. ?We believe the differences between the two sides are still not that great,? says Steve Daly, a Henry Dunant Centre spokesman. ?Nobody's packing up yet.? That kind of optimism is hard...
...China?the weak link in any anti-Kim lynch mob?the talks were especially arresting. Chinese officials have long opined that North Korea may not actually have nukes. That's now a harder pose to strike. Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, according to news reports, was "appalled" by North Korea's performance, and China was said to be anxious about the possibility of "war on our border...
Membership in such a club changes you. How can it not? You’ve been selected out of the Harvard mob to join with a group of boys who self-segregate, preferring each other to the company of women and the non-elite—and you accept. You join their ranks, and share their club-house; you turn a blind eye to the fundamental absurdity—let alone the offensiveness—of it all. This explains the enormous size of the chips on their shoulders...