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...were supposed to protect the family," says sociologist Yoko Shoji. "Now people just pity them." So what does oyaji mean now? Kazuhito Suzuki, a 20-year-old construction worker who admits to beating up an oyaji, snorts and rolls his eyes. Sitting on the front stoop of a pachinko parlor, he takes a drag on his cigarette and watches a parade of older men passing by. None of them looks him in the eye, none dares ask him to stop blocking the doorway. "They smell," he says. "The minute I get on a train in Tokyo, I can smell them...
...kinder, gentler organization. In a small town near Naples, a 30-year feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female relatives from the Graziano family cornered a carload of women from the Cava clan and opened fire with automatic weapons. Three of the Cava women were killed and two were seriously wounded. After toasting their success with male relatives, the Graziano women were taken into custody by local...
Cuban scoffs at the idea that he has done anything innovative. "I've brought a sales focus," he says, shrugging. Cuban has even done radio promotions for a weight-reduction system and a local tanning parlor to help close a deal for ads on broadcasts of Mavericks games. Cuban threatens to fire anyone on his sales team who boasts of the Mavs' winning record, arguing that NBA basketball is not about winning so much as entertainment. That includes the usual dancers in skimpy outfits, kids competing in free-throw contests and goofy advertiser promotions during time-outs--all backed...
...Pinocchio’s is smaller than a common room in Lowell House. There’s a dishwashing sink off to one corner and a large electric dough-mixer hidden in another, but virtually all the pizza is produced in the 20-foot area visible from the parlor. During busy shifts, it takes four or five bakers—all clad in the trademark white uniform—to keep hot pizza in supply. While stretching dough, making subs and serving customers, Noch’s pizzamakers maneuver adroitly to avoid collisions. There is little idle chatter. The concentration...
...visit last week, I wove past Asian markets with windows full of roast ducks and durians, checked out prices in tiny perfume stores with Vietnamese names on the window and peered into that weird place that appears to sell nothing but fans (kitchen ones). I stopped in a tattoo parlor as three teenage girls from Queens, in J. Lo jackets and spray-on jeans, hovered nervously at the counter. I wondered whether to buy a new car radio at Taj Mahal Stereo or at the place that advertises WORLD LARGEST SPEAKER SELECTIONS--SE HABLA ESPANOL. Then lunch: Dim sum, falafel...