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Throw in the fact that most of the blockbuster Hindi movies are financed by the Bombay underworld, and you had, from my point of view, a bizarre and uniquely Indian silliness...
...funerals), but for centuries, local culture has had it that undertakers are bearers of bad luck, dirty people whose social status ranks somewhere between prostitutes and earthworms. No self-respecting Taiwanese becomes a mortician, so the business of preparing the dead for the afterworld has fallen to the underworld and the gangsters who inhabit...
...boundaries--national, moral, legal--constrain the border's worst bad guys: Benjamin Arellano Felix, 49, and his kid brother Ramon, 36. The two baby-faced playboys head the Tijuana cartel, which sits atop Mexico's $30 billion drug-trafficking underworld and may be the most powerful organization in the country of any kind. Each year they smuggle to the U.S. hundreds of tons of cocaine, plus marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine, ferried on ships, on planes and inside truckloads of legitimate merchandise. The Arellanos are thought to have hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away, and that's after bribing Mexican...
...back to writing crime novels." He is already planning his next novel, which will continue the politics-as-crime theme through Nixon and the Vietnam War and up to Watergate. He hopes to have it finished in 2 1/2 years, completing what he calls "the Underworld U.S.A." trilogy. He also has a book in mind about Warren Harding's presidency and "the rumors that some of his family was black...
...Hizballah gained kudos in the Arab world for driving Israel out of southern Lebanon with its guerrilla tactics last year. Now it's making its first major moves into the West Bank and Gaza Strip through old deportees like al-Ghoul who have become power players in the Palestinian underworld because of the expertise in weapons and tactics they acquired from Hizballah...