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...Dark Side," as insiders call the highly secretive National Security Division. In 1978, when Hanssen was posted to the big New York field division, most rookie agents required to work counterintelligence hated the job. The hot career path lay in the dramatic bank robberies and Cosa Nostra cases of the criminal division. Intelligence surveillances took years, decades even, and seldom if ever resulted in actual indictments...
...ARRESTED. BENEDETTO SPERA, 60, member of the notorious Cosa Nostra clan and reputed right-hand man of Italy's most wanted Mafia fugitive, Bernardo Provenzano, for his alleged role in several high-profile murders; in Sicily. On the run for nine years, Spera had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the car-bomb murders of two prominent anti-Mafia judges in 1992; he was also implicated in several other murders. His arrest might have struck film-lovers as familiar: Spera was apprehended in a sting operation in the countryside near Corleone, the Italian setting of several scenes...
Utopia means conformity, a surrender of the individual will to the collective or the divine. "In la sua voluntate e nostra pace" (In His will is our peace), wrote Dante of the joys of heaven, where all choice is excluded by contemplation of the Divine: perfect obedience, perfect happiness, no worries. For God, substitute adepts, the People, the Charismatic Leader, or any one of a number of beguiling gurus, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to Jim Jones with his refreshing drafts of Kool-Aid in distant, steamy Guyana. The Utopian state of mind indicates a yearning to be released from history...
...first-years mixing liquor with the cosa nostra. we've got a trip to finagle-a-whatever that flies in the ugly face of atkins wisdom. we get serious with alan keyes as he shows us the meaning of god and country in the mosh pit. and we've got the inside flavor on Let's Go, which is not just a figure of speech but also a travel outfit run by your classmates...
...Clinton policy McCain supports) 11 Praise highly 13 Palindromic first name of Arkansas G.O.P. Congressman 14 First name of Indian Prime Minister Bush didn't know 15 Now being debated: Should its earnings be taxed? 17 Did a smithy's job 18 One Day at ___ 19 ___ Nostra 21 One of the Bobbseys 22 Mr. Saturday ___ (Crystal flick) 25 Big Apple hoops tourney 28 "Neato!" 29 Any Given Sunday director 31 Jason's vessel 34 "___ to worry!" 36 Ingrid in Casablanca 37 53-Across creator David 39 Laser's "knife" 41 "My mama done ___ me... " 42 Need a bath badly...