Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dumping of toxic waste, decides to quit the business. His padrone, disgusted, spells out what awaits him: "Go make pizzas.") When everyone in town is either a gangster or his potential victim, kids learn early to choose sides. What's exciting and, briefly, enriching for the boys, the Mob sees as labor that's cheap, malleable, expendable. In this sense, the film is Slumdog Millionaire without the girl, the songs or even a long shot at redemption...
Simone and Roberto have been friends forever, but now they belong to opposing factions in the Camorra Mob. "I'm telling you," one warns the other, "if you don't change sides, we might kill you. Or you might kill us. Because we're at war. People are dying every day." The mortal rivals give each other a final farewell kiss on the cheek; they're boys of about...
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, except that right now everyone wants a little piece of it. The mob has been chanting for months, ever since former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrived in late September on Capitol Hill to warn of disaster, pass around his three-page plan and demand $700 billion to fix the problem. Most members of Congress were so spooked they were ready to write a check, until their phone lines started melting with the angry voices of taxpayers demanding details about the likely return on the investment. But even the minimal strings attached did not prevent...
...sirens. There are plenty of prosecutors who will have a chance to make their case against anyone who crossed a line. But there are also culprits who committed no crime, bankers and builders and prophets and Presidents, and the face in the mirror - since many of us in the mob now wish to punish those who gave us just what we asked...
...least we weren’t the only ones. Eventually, after a three-mile detour, around the White House and parade route, we made the six blocks along Constitution Avenue and reached the purple ticket entry gate. The time was 10:00 am, and 1st street was a mob scene. Thousands of people—white, black, Hispanic; political professionals and church hat-donning locals beside families from Alaska—pressed against each other in the street in a “line” lacking order and forward movement. Everybody had heard a different rumor: the section...