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...laying the foundation for famous skyscrapers and sewer lines. Seven hundred feet below the lights of Time Square, the darker side of the New York City underworld surfaces in Thomas Kelly's first novel, Payback, a look into the opulent 80s construction business that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard neighborhoods, hard-to-break families ties and Mafia connections impossible to abandon...
...legal Houdini behind his release, Keating confronts naked hostility: a complete stranger, recognizing his craggy features like a ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known as "the old guy" and initially disliked by fellow convicts. "I was locked down...
According to objectivism, there is no room for discourse. Professor Kennedy remarked that because the answers to profound questions are always elusive, we should maintain an open dialogue. But Binswanger and his mob-squad would have none of it. By evening's end, it was made clear that objectivism had a monopoly on truth...
...brain. In the end, despite evidence linking Iannello to the car and the gun used in the shooting, even the prosecution favored leniency for the pair, citing the youth of 23-year-old Mesiano and the willingness by Iannello, a onetime local crime boss, to help out with official mob investigations after his arrest. The ruling has astonished Italians, particularly given the reputation of Callabrio, the region where Green was murdered, as the "Wild West of Italy," says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "Most people had been expecting these people to get nailed, " says Burke. "It wasn...
...wall is a large plaque, saying "To Cruella P. Joy, for Outstanding Productivity, 1988," and on her desk is a stuffed toddler--Maria's little sister, who was caught several years ago trying to eat the plastic contents of a Mattel refrigerator. Cruella cackles wildly at the raggedy mob. "Fools! Santa isn't here. He doesn't even know you exist--that's the beauty of subcontracting...