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These convictions have not crippled the Mafia, which, as both the 1981 fatal bombing of Philadelphia Mobster Philip Testa and the recent indictments of New York mobsters for conspiracy in connection with Suffolk County garbage collections attest, is amply active. The President's Commission on Organized Crime, established last summer, estimates that the Mafia takes in up to $168 billion a year in the U.S., or more than the gross domestic products of Greece and Austria combined. Says FBI Director Webster: "There are few businesses or industries in our communities that are not affected by organized-criminal enterprises. This...
...author seems to suggest that Detroiters have only their sports teams (i.e. the Detroit Tigers) to enjoy. Having grown up in the City and in a town two miles north, I can attest to the fact that Detroiters take pride in their teams, themselves and their city--the same city that boasts a Grand Prix, the Montreux/Detroit Jazz Festival, Greektown, the Institute of Arts, hydroplane boat races, Ethnic Festivals, a world class symphony, first class restaurants, the Michigan Opera, two zoos, Canada (across the Detroit River) and an industry which is the backbone of the nation's economy Construction...
...must be asserted on the journalist's own authority. Off the record material cannot be used in any form, except to guide a reporter's thinking, although that agreement sometimes is breached if a story becomes public or the journalist finds other sources who will attest...
...politicians who pride themselves on being so pragmatic, people like Gary Hart, Jerry Brown, and Timothy Wirth--three of the men Rothenberg discusses at length (he discusses to women)--their failure often to get things done politically is striking, as anyone who remembers the Medfly fiasco in California can attest to. Others of this breed seem more sensible, a Tsongas or a Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). Rothenberg writes of the way similar rhetoric characterizes the neoliberals. That's well enough, but behind this rhetoric there is a distinct lack of the coalition-building and bridge-crossing that makes...
REMAKING OLD CLASSICS has always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both...