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...careful. According to the government, he closed down the social clubs (they were like flypaper to electronic bugs), stopped going to Mob funerals and weddings (enterprise evidence in a RICO case) and traveled as far as Mexico, France and Italy to meet with family captains and avoid surveillance. But Massino made one mistake. He believed that his men, including his brother-in-law, would honor omerta as scrupulously as he did. Massino was arrested on Jan. 9, 2003, the day before his 60th birthday...
...Hertling, assistant commander of the 1st Armored Division patrolling Baghdad, told TIME that compared with capturing Saddam, unraveling the network of terrorist organizations in Iraq is a much rougher struggle. Unlike Saddam's loyalists, the jihadists operate in cells that are not based in specific neighborhoods or tribes. They avoid fighting the U.S. directly, instead using terrorism to sow fear and undermine security among Iraqi civilians...
...draw our borders fairly liberally,” Catalano says. ” And we feel that’s appropriate. We want to avoid the appearance at all costs of hiding crime or downplaying crime. We just don’t do it. We could be more selective in the way in which we define public property but we don’t feel that’s appropriate...
He’s simply the kind of guy—completely averse to any accolades or kudos that would separate him from his teammates—who you’d imagine trying actively to slouch his shoulders and hunch his back to avoid drawing unwanted notice; the same player who tries to minimize his frame off the field and downplay his own talent and successes on it the same way he walks under the ill-designed doorframes that have plagued him his whole life...
Sitting comfortably at a table in Harvard Square’s Au Bon Pain, Mann is soft-spoken and modest, careful to avoid sweeping predictions about a season just underway...