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...Mafia has long fascinated the world with its mix of murder, mystery and Old World folklore. But the Mob is best understood as an organization constantly trying to consolidate its power in order to accumulate wealth. Considered the modern inventor of organized crime, the Sicilian Mob remains hugely powerful, even as its share of the international trafficking business has diminished and other syndicates have made headlines for their bloody turf wars. (Read a TIME cover story on the Mafia...
...think I understood guitar rock as well as I probably should have. I don't think I understood bands like Led Zeppelin. In their era, everyone had such a regard for them because of them ushering in rock 'n' roll and this larger-than-life lifestyle. But then they had these songs that would just not stop. I didn't fully get it. I appreciate it in a different way now. I'm able to understand that, hey, that guitar riff is awesome...
Conventional wisdom conflates the modern filmmaker with the modern novelist, as both are assumed to fill the role of storyteller. For the typical moviegoer, it’s understood that a film moves forward on the axis of narrative. Equally fundamental is the notion that the viewer consents to that narrative. For Nathaniel Dorsky—an experimental filmmaker, professional film editor, and film essayist—these rules impose unnecessary constraints on the freedom of the process. Instead, he says, the very idea of the moving image implies a sort of narrative.“Film is a narrative...
...These cells are very poorly understood,” according to Hock, who said the surprising results could help develop better clinical applications of stem cell therapy in the future...
...Blagojevich then tried to use a union official as an intermediary to the Obama transition and "Senate Candidate 1." On Nov. 12, Blagojevich discussed the open Senate seat with an official from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). During the conversation, Blagojevich said he understood that the SEIU official was an "emissary to discuss Senate Candidate 1's interest" in the seat, according to the complaint. Blagojevich said he would be interested in the 501(c)(4) arrangement, and the SEIU official agreed to "put that flag up and see where it goes." Late Tuesday, an SEIU spokesperson said...