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...technique is to convey raw prejudice to his followers, who understand his code, than go on respectable media [and now to Harvard], smile and pretend he never meant it. His trademark is the wink. The wink is interpreted by his friends in mainstream media as 'I'm fooling the mob.' It is understood by the mob as 'I'm fooling the pointy-heads...

Author: By Aharon J. Friedman, | Title: Demagogue Deserved Rebuke | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...denied a reprieve by Bush 11. The X-Files figure 12. Spandau's last prisoner 14. Basso Pinza 17. Cackleberry producer 21. Real estate abbr. 23. Radius site 24. Robertson, who called a McCain co-chairman a "vicious bigot" 25. The Straight Talk Express, for one 26. Mob turncoat arrested for allegedly pushing Ecstasy 27. Sotheby's CEO Brooks, who resigned 28. Java emanation 29. Rebellious Sri Lankans 30. Busy mo. for 1-Across 31. McCain co-campaign chairman Rudman 32. Goldbrick 33. Sacagawea's likeness on the new $1 coin allegedly got a "__ job" 35. Like venison 38. Either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Mar. 13, 2000 | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Since testifying against former employer and Mob boss John Gotti, SALVATORE (Sammy the Bull) GRAVANO has been organized crime's No. 1 pariah. But turning state's evidence looks like petty theft when compared with the sins Gravano may have committed against Mafia style. Last week the former hit man, 54, was arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...fate, we mostly have to make do with the comic mainstream, wherein The Whole Nine Yards is currently bobbing. Directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny), it's a story more machined than created, in which Oz Oseransky (Matthew Perry), an innocent Canadian dentist, gets involved with a semiretired mob hit man (Bruce Willis) and a legion of his former colleagues who want to whack Willis for ratting out their boss. Somehow Oz survives, and gets the gunman's gorgeous ex-wife (Natasha Henstridge) for good measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Irony Kill Comedy? | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...race book and bingo rooms of the complex, empty last night, are beginning to fill up. Two hours before the big noon game, the bingo hall is easily half full, and a mob of senior citizens is lining up to buy their way in. Bingo is what started it all, but it all started down the road in Ledyard. I get back in the car and make my way back to Foxwoods for the last time...

Author: By Robert J. Coolbrith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Reservation for One: One man, one hundred dollars and 15 hours at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

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