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...sometimes in the primary hues, sometimes in less-than-subtle pastels. These he color-coordinates with silky haberdashery and alligator loafers dyed to match. But underneath his sight-gag plumage lives a gray, watchful, calculating spirit. He's a professional gambler, always looking for an edge. Or, once the Mob makes him manager of a Las Vegas casino in the 1970s, the preternaturally alert defender of its edge over the assembled suckers...
...frustrated by Russia's decline in world prominence and the slow pace of the transition to a market economy. "Economic reform has basically failed in Russia," Zarakhovich says. "The state is still everywhere; those who have been trying hard to work honestly are caught between the state and the mob. There is great frustration in Moscow, and even more when you get outside the cities. The people there are really dependent on their local governments. People haven't been paid in months, and they're starving. Ten years ago people couldn't eat because food was not available. Today...
...presumption of innocence until guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the State of California was ruled not to have carried its burden of proof. I for one am happy to live in a country where the rule of law governs and not the rule of the mob. MARK W. BYRUM JR., Springfield, Virginia
...spent most of the flight sipping a cola, reading, and being videotaped by a passenger. He stepped off the plane at LAX into a mob of flashing lights and anxious reporters: Did the quick verdict favor the prosecution? one asked. "Not necessarily," Cochran replied. Was he surprised at the brevity of the deliberations? "Yes," he said. "I am surprised." Then he added that he had confidence in the jurors. "This," said Cochran, "has been a very good jury." He shook off the crowd and, flanked by several airport policemen and two bodyguards, at least one of them with the shaved...
...most dramatic image, and yet you can't tell from it where Copley's own political sympathies lay--with the common citizenry that he came from and Adams spoke for, or with the Tories (including Copley's in-laws) who detested Adams as a tribune of the "mob...