Word: mobbing
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...Criminal Conglomerate The profile of Mafia don Joseph (Big Joey) Massino referred to the vision some members have of La Cosa Nostra as a "grand old society that the New World corrupted" [CRIME, March 29]. That sentimental view is not supported by a brief history of the Mob we published...
...20th centuries, the thugs found easy prey ... Prohibition offered the transplanted Mafiosi the chance they could not have made for themselves. Only they had the organization that could capitalize on the potential of bootlegging ... There was enough intraorganizational feuding to fill a graveyard ... To stop the killing, said [the Mob's modern founding father Salvatore] Maranzano, the gangs ... would henceforth be recognized as families, each with its own territorial limits ... The organization's code of conduct [was] a combination of such qualities as manliness, honor and willingness to keep secrets. Its requirements have never changed. The penalty for breaching...
...order to build his fortune, it is not to last. Reeves (Sexy Beast’s Ray Winstone, gone all Ben Kingsley), an old partner from Ripley’s brief foray into art forgery, arrives one day, demanding Ripley’s help in murdering a competing Berlin mob boss...
...many ordinary Iraqis, for whom sadistic brutality was a regular feature of life under Saddam, the scenes in Fallujah provoked outpourings of shame over the mob's desecration of the dead. Because of the sheer savagery of the attack and the likelihood of U.S. retaliation, last week's massacre also heightened the sense of uncertainty about what comes next. The Bush Administration insists that it will hand over power to some form of interim Iraqi government by June 30. By then, the White House fervently hopes, coalition forces will have imposed sufficient order and made enough progress in Iraq...
Among the many questions that remain unanswered is whether the horror in Fallujah represented an isolated spasm of mob violence or a more corrosive, widespread streak of anti-American hatred. On Saturday, Shi'ite followers of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr marched and burned American flags, promising if asked to be the hand of Hamas and Hizballah in Iraq. But galling as the images in Fallujah were, U.S. commanders say the city and the surrounding area remain a uniquely difficult problem, with little bearing on what's happening in the rest of the country. The military continues to believe that...