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...aged Gallos had 20 grandchildren between them. And Dole did not stop there. He fought against increases in excise taxes on wine, championed federal programs that promote American wine abroad and, in 1992, supported the Gallos' efforts to market as a version of champagne a bubbly wine that was vat produced, even though the real champagne method calls for fermentation in the bottle. With Dole's help, the Gallos celebrated their labeling victory the very next year...
...murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11 year-old son of Santino Di Matteo, a former Mafiosi who became a government witness. Brusca allegedly first kidnapped the boy to end his father's collaboration, but when that didn't work, strangled him and threw his body in a vat of acid. "He is considered to be the most wanted of the Mafia fugitives," says Burke. "He is not at all the old type of honorable Mafia, who have rules about hurting women and children, but more of the new type of Mafioso, who are really brutal." Brusca is also accused...
...ORDER LAST WEEK, a white racist set off a bomb that killed 20 people on a New York City subway train. Tori Spelling, in the CBS movie Co-Ed Call Girl, grabbed a gun and shot a sleazy pimp. Batman (the cartoon character) was almost thrown into a vat of flames by the Penguin. Lemuel Gulliver (the Ted Danson character) battled gigantic bees in the land of Brobdingnag. And Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy slapped around bad guys in the umpteenth cable showing...
...trouble getting that horse out of my mind. On the outside, it varied from a regular horse only in its size and in the fact that it occasionally said, "Clear that with my accountant." Its inside, though, where machine tools and Learjets depreciated in a gooey vat of oil-depletion allowances, looked like the stomach in an antacid commercial...
...only player in this game with a level head is Old Faithful, Defender of the Faith Herself: Queen Elizabeth's statements from Buckingham Palace have been properly curt and a decided cut above the thrashing-about that occurs in the vat of mud that is our media...