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Massino, 61, has other legitimate businesses (Cafe Via Vento, in Maspeth) and properties (in Queens and Palm Coast, Fla.), but his favorite is the CasaBlanca. From that neighborhood ristorante, he has allegedly run an operation that, the feds assert, includes extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling, narcotics and murder in a vast criminal empire whose tentacles stretch up into Canada and back to the Sicilian motherland. Investigators say he certified his power in 2000, when he convened a meeting of four of the Five Families, at--where else?--the CasaBlanca...
...CHARGE: [President Bush] thought that Americans wouldn't notice what's happening in our country to the people who make up this country. Thought they wouldn't notice that every minute, two jobs are lost. --JOHN KERRY, speaking to supporters last week in West Palm Beach...
...officer was dispatched to Eliot House to take a report of a previously stolen palm pilot. Officers also took a report...
...talk about process, Kerry in his own way is doing the same thing; at some level this choice may come down to a gut check. It was political palm reader Bill Clinton who warned his fellow Democrats that in dangerous times, people may prefer a leader who is strong and wrong to one who is weak and right. That may be one reason that, even this early on, we have heard about Kerry's personal heroism in Vietnam; we may not know where the snipers are today, but we know he had the guts to run toward one 35 years...
...liked them was, he wrote, "regarded as an eccentric." By then the young anthropologist was seeing official attitudes to Aborigines up close on Cape York. In 1932 he photographed three Aboriginal men chained neck to neck, sentenced without trial by a mission superintendent to lifelong exile on Palm Island. The image, reproduced in Thomson, shows them beginning a 380-km walk with police riding behind them. As desolate as the image is, Thomson wrote, "it gives no idea of the misery of the scene...