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...spotlight in a Brooklyn federal courtroom as a jury is selected for United States of America v. Joseph Massino et al. Defendants. "He's big-time," says retired FBI agent Bruce Mouw, who nailed John Gotti and ran the bureau's Bonanno squad in the 1980s. Says Pat Colgan, a retired FBI supervisor who tailed Massino for more than a decade: "Joey didn't get the reputation he had on the street because he was Mr. Nice Guy. Everybody knew. We knew, the bad guys knew, Joey's in charge." George Hanna Jr., current head of the FBI's Bonanno...
...From Dalhart to Del Rio and out El Paso way, well I’ll be doin’ fine on Houston time,” sings the songwriter/country singer Pat Green in the pick-me-up song “I Like Texas...
...just a freshman and only lost his quarterfinal match by a score of 8-6 to the eventual champion, Ohio State’s No. 1 Tommy Rowlands. That was also Rowlands’ closest match, as he went on to beat Penn State’s No. 2 Pat Cummins in the finals...
...metaphors go, it's almost too pat to build a book around, but Lee gets a lot of power out of it, and the airy, appealing innocence of Jerry's voice buoys the novel whenever it's in danger of sinking. As Aloft follows Jerry through his daily rounds and bemused reminiscences, you're gently lulled into a sense of suburban security by his good-humored apercus, until--bam!--the scariness of life surges into view like water from a ruptured main: a miserable ex-girlfriend pops a fistful of OxyContin, or someone chokes on a turkey bone...
...write a letter the University President Lawrence H. Summers before the UM felt obliged to contact him again. This happened in May 2003, more than five months later, and, coincidentally, after that year’s UM application deadline. In this letter, sent by current UM Membership chair Pat McLeod, McLeod cited “concerns about the legitimacy of [the ACOI’s] receiving body at Harvard and how [it] both identifies and distinguishes [itself] from the Episcopal and Anglican Church” as reasons why the ACOI was not admitted to the UM the year before. Besides...