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With rocks crashing through his windows, an iron spike punching holes through his kitchen door and a mob outside baying "Burn! Burn!," Philip Lo discovered the meaning of terror last Thursday as he cowered for two hours with his family inside a locked bedroom...
...Their supreme moment arrived in early 1960, when Sinatra, Davis, Lawford, Dean Martin and Joey Bishop gathered in Las Vegas to film the casino-robbery caper Ocean's Eleven. Every night for three weeks, after the day's shooting was over, they all played--and played!--the Sands, a Mob-connected casino in which Sinatra held an interest. They called their act the Summit, a convergence of star power. Crooning, one-upping each other, rolling out booze jokes with their onstage liquor cart, they established their bad-boys-in-black-tie schtick. Sinatra to Martin: "Tell me something...
...allure of do-it-yourself trading is transforming both Wall Street and Main Street. Traditional brokerages, whose lock on vital information made them the market's gatekeepers, are changing their approach, and their fees. Meanwhile, a frenzied mob of e-traders has linked itself to a rapidly growing number of web trading sites. Today there are over 60 e-brokers, more than twice the number of a year ago. Many are electronic branches of such giants as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments, but others, like E*Trade and Datek Online, dwell mainly in cyberspace. The e-brokerages themselves have been...
JANE AUSTEN'S MAFIA! (July 24). This synoptic Mafia spoof, sort of a Godfellas, is from Jim Abrahams of the Naked Gun series. The trailer, which has 17 big laughs (out of a possible 22), tells us to "See it early. Avoid the Mob." We'll be there...
...While some cheered the outcome, there was unease about using an anti-mob law to fight abortion activists. ?Everybody who loves the First Amendment has got to sleep uneasily tonight,? said G. Robert Blakely, the Notre Dame professor who drafted RICO for the Nixon administration back in 1970. But for Susan Hill, president of the Chicago abortion clinics, the ends justified the means. ?I feel safer than I did yesterday,? she said. In the end, RICO may be remembered as the tool that allowed the two sides of America?s hottest debate to respectfully disagree...