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More than just a macho mobster novel, Payback centers around two brothers, Paddy and Billy Adare. Paddy is an ex-boxer who just missed Olympic glory and at 32, has spent his life working for Jack Tierney as a mob enforcer. Billy is the first in the family to have left life as a laborer behind to embrace education, a college degree and a sub-urban, green-lawn dream of prosperity...
...Tierney defeated Torkildsen by just 360 votes earlier this month, prompting the incumbent to call for a recount...
...Sunday, Torkildsen picked up 33 votes in a recount of votes cast in Danvers, cutting Tierney's margin to 327 votes, the Secretary of State's Office said...
...Democratic political consultant Michael Goldman on the process of recounting votes in the contested Torikildsen-Tierney Massachusetts Congressional race. More than 60 election officials, lawyers, congressional staffers and reporters crowded into Memorial City Hall to watch the beginning of the recount...
...domestic terror. The FBI was under tremendous pressure to solve the case almost instantaneously so that the Olympic Games' athletes and visitors would not be crippled by fear. But it is common knowledge in law enforcement that "the bigger the case, the lower the standard [of conduct]," says Tierney. "The pressure on the police, on prosecutors is overwhelming...