Word: nostra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main draw of Dante's masterpiece remains the universal truth of its central story--that of finding oneself spiritually lost. Dante writes in the first tercet, the story of the pilgrim's journey is that of "nostra vita," "our life," not just his. And Dante's guide through hell, Virgil, observes in canto XII: "It is necessity,/And not just pleasure, that puts him on this road...
Sabotaging the competition is a venerable American tradition, from la Cosa Nostra putting sugar in rivals' gas tanks, to Nixon's dirty tricks operatives harassing the McGovern campaign. Should the public, then, really be devastated when something similar, though less serious, happens in the competitive world of figure skating...
...year-old FBI debriefing report of Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...
...actual no-holds-barred miss (such as the complete omission of the San Diego Crew Classic last week, nostra culpa) is usually just that--a miss. An error. Something that, up against deadline, we overlooked. A failure to communicate between a reporter and an editor. A whole team that's out at a party and can't be reached. If I'm sick with the flu and Tarek has three big papers due, quality control will slip a little...
...lira from Europe's exchange-rate mechanism told Italians that their economy was not as resilient as they once thought. Then they were forced to confront the power of the Mafia. And for 18 agonizing months they have been discovering that the crooks are not confined to the Cosa Nostra but reach right into the country's political establishment...