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...Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster...
...were against the kind of unilateral war Bush wanted to wage, and our suspicion that Bush would prove disastrous as a nation builder has largely been confirmed. In the year that has passed, we have learned a great deal about America’s faulty intelligence regarding supposed weapons of mass destruction, corruption and cronyism in Iraq’s rebuilding contracts and the extent of the Pentagon’s miscalculations in its reconstruction plans. The world has good reason...
...including those taken as late as last week—Mariano Rajoy looked certain to coast to victory. The handpicked successor of outgoing Prime Minister José María Aznar, Rajoy ran on a strong antiterrorism platform; but after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided a valuable, if horrifying, lesson: Terrorism works. Just ask Rajoy...
...whole new kind of pain came last week, when Tilden learned of the arrest of Henry Reid, the director of the UCLA willed-body program, and Ernest Nelson, a former mortuary worker. Reid was arrested on suspicion of grand theft, and is thought to have illegally sold body parts for profit from some 500 cadavers in the UCLA cooler--Kim's possibly among them--to Nelson, who was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen property. Nelson, who used a power saw to dismember the bodies, says he paid $700,000 for the parts and received fees to transfer them...
...none have been submitted. For the environment, that's cold comfort. - by Adam Smith Penalty Time Officials in charge of Germany's 2006 soccer World Cup preparations were left red-faced after Karl-Heinz Wildmoser, president of German club 1860 Munich, was arrested along with three others on suspicion of pocketing bribes worth €2.8 million from the construction firm picked to build a stadium for the tournament...