Word: underworld
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...alleged fugitive boss captured Saturday night in the city of Marbella, have a name for Spain: La Costa Nostra ... The term plays off Cosa Nostra, or Our Thing, as the Mafia is called, and underscores what authorities say: that Spain has become a top base for the Naples underworld." --Los Angeles Times...
...These days it's known as a dwarf planet, but until Venetia Phair, 90, was 11, Pluto was dubbed Planet X. When Phair suggested naming the orb after the Roman god of the underworld, her well-connected grandfather helped make it a reality...
...sparked an economic boom. After seven years in office, Uribe's approval rating stands at 68%, according to a recent Gallup poll. And if he's given the chance to run in the May 2010 election, several opinion surveys show Uribe mopping up. (See pictures from Colombia's narco underworld...
...talking about, The Wire, aka the sweetest show ever, is about crime and policing in the age of post-industrial urban decay, and the characters traditionally say “all in the game” to describe the triumphs, defeats and harsh realities of operating in the criminal underworld. Sort of like “that’s life” or “shit happens, bra” but cooler.Now bear with me, because I think that this phrase has deep meaning for us as Harvard students as well. You know what? You?...
...only a bare, dark void. For set designer Grace C. Laubacher ’09, however, the theatre becomes a blank canvas, the medium for her art. From the skeletal, caged streets of London in “Sweeney Todd” to the scientific underworld of “The Space Between,” Laubacher has been set designer and technical director for more than 20 productions on campus.In recognition of her extensive work, Laubacher, who is also a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and co-founder of the Harvard Stage Designers’ Collective...