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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his stocky build, thick neck and gravelly voice, Salvatore Gravano lives up to his nickname, "Sammy the Bull." But as he said on the witness stand last week, his enemies are more likely to start calling him by a new moniker, "Sammy the Rat." In five days of often chilling testimony, the former Gambino family underboss calmly described the secret inner workings and rituals of La Cosa Nostra and provided gory details of the 19 killings he admitted taking part in. Most of all, he tried to hammer nails into the legal coffin of John Gotti, the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials Why Is Sammy the Bull Singing? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...cross-examination of Gravano, Gotti's attorney Albert Krieger tried to paint the Bull as a traitorous opportunist who betrayed a longtime friend because he feared for his own neck. Krieger asked Gravano if people in his old Brooklyn neighborhood had a word for someone like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials Why Is Sammy the Bull Singing? | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

East said the dress--a white sequin gown with ahigh neck and long sleeves--was specially made forher by nationally known designer Stephen Yearick...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Currier Junior Wins Pageant | 3/12/1992 | See Source »

...candidates are running nearly neck-and-neck. Almost every major Florida newspaper endorsed Tsongas, but Clinton has an organized volunteer network in the state that could be the critical difference in a close election...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reviving the Glory of Old Dixie | 3/10/1992 | See Source »

Rivals are breathing down his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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