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Gotti quit school at age 16 and joined a violent teenage gang known as the Fulton-Rockaway Boys. By the time he was 25, Gotti had joined a mob crew headed by Carmine Fatico, a captain in the Gambino crime family, and was now a full-time gangster...
...just when Sanders had run out of ambition, the unimaginable happened: he was offered a job. The position, as a gas-station attendant in Far Rockaway, Queens, was 40 minutes from his home and paid $6 an hour. "I could just tell you a thousand stories in one minute," he said. "I can't even tell you how I feel. It's nothing to really brag about. But, hey, I am on cloud nine. I am going places. I am going to Disney World!" Sounding like he was accepting an Oscar, Sanders repeatedly credited Curtis & Associates, the job-training program...
...Afghanistan is going well. The Rockaway plane crash is looking like an ordinary accident. And there are no new anthrax victims. Seems like a good time to enjoy a breather, a holiday from seriousness, the seriousness we woke up to on Sept. 11. Hence the righteous fulmination from critics left and right against measures the Bush Administration has put in place to detain, question and try suspected terrorists...
...Queens neighborhood with 246 passengers and nine crew members aboard at 9:17 AM ET. The plane crashed just three minutes after takeoff - the most dangerous part of any flight. Rescue workers have not found any survivors from the plane; six people are reported missing on the ground in Rockaway. Officials warn they have no clues as to why the plane went down, but add that the pilot appears to have dumped fuel before crashing, a procedure consistent with a mechanical failure...
...mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention to the names and always box the runners in an exacta. Everybody seemed full of oral histories, from the Rockaway Beach set in their sharkshin suits to the Rastafarians who ringed the downstairs paddock and called out insults and encouragement to the jockeys before every race...