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...best-known football foundry is a Johnny-come-lately to the game. The University of Notre Dame was barely out of the log-cabin stage when Rutgers and Princeton played the first intercollegiate football game in 1869. The Fighting Irish had a school cheer in 1879 ("Rah, rah! Nostra Domina"), but they did not have a team to cheer for until 1887?eight years after the famed Golden Dome of Our Lady first cast its glint across the Indiana plains. It wasn't much of a team at that; in two years, Notre Dame lost three straight to Michigan, prompting...
...cover story, Farrell found that you "can't really interview Monk." He had about 30 chats with him, spread over two or three months, mostly walking around outside the Five Spot, Monk's Manhattan base, or sitting in some dark bar at 2 a.m.- "just like Cosa Nostra." Farrell considers himself "a jazz fan in a way I am not a fan of anything else," takes a night or two each week "to beat about the scene." But he thinks that for all its joy, jazz is surrounded by so much sadness that "to just say you love...
...precisely is Baath? Nasser seems to consider it an even greater threat than his old enemies, the Arab monarchies of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and complains: "I have read every book by or about Baath and I could understand nothing." A Western diplomat describes it as an "Arab Cosa Nostra." On the contrary, one knowledgeable observer thinks Baath "is probably ahead of its time-reformist, progressive and secular in a world of Arabs bound by tradition, religion and narrow, personal interest...
...start Valachi's reliability as a witness was questionable. His notoriously bad memory required intensive drilling by Justice Department representatives, and in spite of his preparation he was able to make mistakes. For example, when he said that Robert Doyle of Stamford, Connecticut, was a member of the Cosa Nostra, one Robert Doyle of Stamford, a respectable businessman, received threatening telephone calls. The Robert Doyle Valachi referred to really lived in Hartford...
During his five days of Senate testimony, Valachi, if nothing else, enriched the language with his litany by enabling the Justice Department to compose a list of the nicknames of killers, thieves and pimps in Cosa Nostra. Among them...