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...this chaos chasing after the last bus home. Fraternity and equality were forgotten as we ran through the crowd. All that mattered was liberty. The bus appeared in the distance and a cry went up. The very young, old and infirm were left in the dust as the mob surged forward. We dodged and wove our way to the bus with the knowledge that only the strong would survive. Dashing ahead of a gaggle of tourists in matching outfits, we leapt onto the bus roaring with victory as the doors closed on those who had been too slow. We waved...
...early 1980s, Arlacchi wrote a definitive book on how the Italian Mafia had transformed itself into a modern business. When the country's top Mafia fighter was gunned down in 1982, a badly shaken government asked Arlacchi to devise a plan to confiscate the organization's assets. After the Mob fought back with bombs that killed Italy's top two prosecutors, Arlacchi helped create a program to arrest hundreds of top Mafiosi and imprison them on a remote island off the coast. They failed in an attempt to kill him with a bomb planted in a tollbooth on the autostrada...
...roots on trips to Greece. His father Christos had only a sixth-grade education, and as a teenager Plato flipped burgers at his dad's restaurants. After a stint in the Marines, straight-arrow Cacheris worked as a Justice Department prosecutor helping Attorney General Robert Kennedy target the Mob...
...Sullivan, the poker-faced TV variety-show host, having spotted the effervescent moptops in mid-mob scene at London's Heathrow Airport the previous October ("Who the hell are the Beatles?" he'd asked excitedly), brought them over to play his show early on, in February 1964, and 70 million people tuned in. A congratulatory telegram from Elvis Presley, the great, lost god of rockabilly, was read at the beginning of the show, in what might have been seen as torch-passing fashion, and Americans--or American youth, at any rate--promptly fell in love. ("I give them a year...
...Netscape always truly doomed? Talk to any successful start-up in Silicon Valley, and you hear the same story, of how one day Redmond comes to visit and makes an offer. "It was like the Mob," recalls Mark Andreessen, the college kid who helped found the company and who, when the boys from Redmond visited Netscape in April 1995, sat there silently transcribing the meeting on his ThinkPad. "It was an offer you can't refuse" is how Andreessen characterized it. His notes, which he turned over to investigators, showed up last week in the Department of Justice's complaint...