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...Colombo spat is a battle for control of one of the nation's largest crime groups -- and its purse strings. On one side are roughly 40 members loyal to Carmine (the Snake) Persico, the 59-year-old boss currently serving a 100-year prison term in Lompoc, Calif., for racketeering. The Persico forces are being challenged by 60 or so members loyal to Victor (Little Vic) Orena, the 57-year-old acting head who has been solidifying his grip on the family's businesses, ranging from gambling and prostitution to air freight, construction, catering and liquor distribution...
...spat over salaries paid to U.S. auto execs...
...possible to detect in his quest the messianic reflex that overcomes people with big checkbooks and egos to match. He invented the Turner Tomorrow Awards to inspire writers the world over to write about "positive solutions to global problems," but the contest this year degenerated into a spat over who should get the $500,000 prize. He has issued what some are calling the Ted Commandments, a list of 10 voluntary initiatives that would make the world a better place. (It includes "I promise to have no more than two children" -- a belated pledge, since he has five...
...very public -- and very ugly -- spat left the historic affinity between Jerusalem and Washington more strained than ever. Israel, which has traditionally relied on a sympathetic U.S. Congress to circumvent setbacks with the Oval Office, has brushed up against a stern challenger in Bush. With the cold war ended, Israel no longer enjoys standing as Washington's "unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the Mediterranean. Indeed, the Bush Administration believes the biggest threat to U.S. interests in the region stems from the Arab-Israeli conflict, which gives Muslim fundamentalists a stick with which to beat their moderate, pro-U.S. governments. Moreover...
...convicted child molester, but the police do not check him out. Instead of rescuing the young Laotian immigrant from Dahmer, who has since confessed to murdering and mutilating 17 men over the past 13 years, the cops seem to laugh off the incident as a gay love spat. They deliver the 14-year- old to Dahmer's apartment. And as soon as they leave, Dahmer reportedly proceeds to strangle the boy and dismember his body...