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Congratulations on a superb piece of writing. I'm quite an avid reader and don't recall a better-written article depicting my midwestern idea of the Harvard mind. You certainly hit "the nail on the head," and gave me a chance to laugh at myself and my own attitudes toward the eastern blueblood...
...discussed his work for a local Mob family and boasted of being like the consigliere in The Godfather. His listener was an FBI undercover agent posing as a corrupt Miami lawyer, and Rankin is now serving a 54-year term for drug conspiracy. Federal lawmen are also trying to nail lawyers who represent small-time gang members in order to protect higher-ups in the Mob. Lawyer William Cintolo, for instance, was indicted in December for conspiracy to obstruct justice after he allegedly was hired by the Angiulos, Boston's reputed top crime family, to represent a grand jury witness...
...This will be a tooth and nail fight, and we will spend a lot of time" trying to prevent the regulations from becoming law, says Thomas K. Steel, vice-president and general counsel of the New England Cable Television Association. "The regulations are totally overzealous, surrealistic even." Steel adds...
...have nothing to fear," he announced. Sure enough, the authorities could muster no more % serious charge against him than illegal possession of firearms. Six weeks later he was released on bail, and the case is now in limbo. "We know who (the cocaine kings) are, and we can't nail them," says Police Captain Guillermo Benavides. "But the worst thing is that even if we could get all the bosses, new ones would immediately take their places. They'd pop up like mushrooms...
...that in almost 20 years of playing, the Dead have never managed to record a song that sold enough copies to make it as a hit single. They have had fair success with albums, but their ecstatic, visionary offshoot of rock spins with improvisation, and the necessity to nail things down in a studio version tends to fossilize the band...