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...series follows Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a U.S. Marshal who has been booted from a plum post in Miami after a high-profile shooting garnered unwanted publicity: he beat a mobster to the draw western-style, though at a table at a fancy restaurant. The bureau moves him to Harlan County, Kentucky, where Givens grew up and which he then escaped - running from, among other things, a criminal father who's now in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Gunman | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

...Beck, who thrives on publicity stunts and controversy, could not resist engaging with Massa. On Tuesday morning, during his radio show, Beck compared the Democrat to both a mobster wanting to testify against John Gotti and a potential Soviet spy wanting to "cross over to our side." The conservative blogger Michelle Malkin called into the show to tell Beck he was making a mistake. "This guy deserves 60 minutes of our time, really?" Malkin asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Massa Circus Takes the Air out of Glenn Beck | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

Thanks to movies like Goodfellas, Americans appreciate how witness-protection programs are supposed to work. A mobster may not be able to find decent marinara sauce where the feds have him hiding, but in return for his testimony, he can count on not getting whacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Witness-Protection Program: What Protection? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...English at a Maid Station massage parlor (so-called because female employees are dressed to look like French maids); another moved him to impersonate an Iranian to try to catch an Iranian believed to be a murder suspect. It wasn't a long step between that and hearing a mobster say things like "Either erase the story, or we'll erase you." (See pictures of the rampage in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Vice Guy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...police HQ, drawing dangerously close to a hostess who works at the Den of Delicious and taking on the gangs responsible for human-trafficking in Japan - he comes to lose all sense of where his life ends and the 8th Circle of Hell strip club begins. As a mobster's mistress (she is one of 15) notes, Adelstein is almost a twin to her criminal lover: "You're both workaholics, with high libidos, adrenaline junkies and shameless womanizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Vice Guy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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