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...intervening years, that hushed self-pity has metamorphosed into an aggressive self-loathing most frequently manifested in obnoxious ad hoc mob attacks on single unsuspecting Yankee fans. Red Sox fans don’t even need a reason to break out the “Yankees suck!” chant any more. A group of them recognize one another as Sox fans at a Dispatch concert? Yankees suck. The Celtics are blowing out the Cleveland Cavaliers at the FleetCenter? Yankees suck. The Patriots just won the Super Bowl and fans have started overturning cars and setting trash cans...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, | Title: Of Sox and Sucking | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

MILESTONES: Al-Qaeda suspect arrested; former Mob boss convicted; Pop Rocks inventor dies; Crick remembered by Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Aug. 9, 2004 | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

CONVICTED. JOSEPH (Big Joey) MASSINO, 61, the once powerful Bonanno Mob boss; of racketeering, arson, extortion and money laundering; in New York City. The former 400-pounder--dubbed "the Last Don" for evading prison while the heads of New York's other four Mafia families were behind bars--was also found guilty of having a role in the slaying of Dominick (Sonny Black) Napolitano, who let FBI agent Joe Pistone (posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco) infiltrate the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 9, 2004 | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...bullets - and, one scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. Watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers - until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities. Yet the innocent idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy's affection for "going native." The elder Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...masks for burn patients, was trucked from Sydney and installed in a white booth in Menzies' town hall. Persuading 130 people to enter, strip naked and allow a red beam to scan their bodies for 15 sec. was an achievement in itself. "It was like trying to get a mob of sheep through a gate," says Kath Finlayson. "They'd all break and go everywhere." Here the cowboy qualities of Ronald Hogarth were called upon. As Finlayson tells it, "I said, 'Hogie, look you haven't had a bloody missus for 30, 40 years, come on. No one wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonely Art Club | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

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