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...Shine Da God Son, one of Fisher's protégés, was one such young person. When Fisher met Shine (real name Abdul Malakhi Kamara), he wanted to be a musician, but also a gangster. He had lost his father during the war, and was hanging out with a bad crowd who settled their problems with violence. "You can't work with me with that kind of attitude," Fisher told him. Shine cleaned up his act and has since produced three albums with several hit songs - including one called "No More Beatin', No More Dissin'" - and is working...
Tormented as a child, he discarded the technical style he was taught as a teenager to fight in a way that guaranteed the audience's love. With his prominent eyebrows, low forehead and muscular body, he looked like something out of a '30s gangster movie. Larry Merchant once said he appeared as if "he oughta be fighting with a fedora...
...that, while every occurrence described could have taken place, it's hard to accept so many unusual things happening to the same people. The narrator, for example, might have gone from looking down upon rickshaw pullers to loving one, sparred with FBI agents and crossed paths with a famous gangster - but all of those things...
...Hoover's most resourceful agent, Melvin Purvis. They, and Dillinger too, knew that a life of crime was not a profession from which one gracefully retired. Purvis and his team caught up with their public enemy as he emerged from a theater showing a Gable gangster film. The real-life tough guy was 31 when he died on that Chicago street. (See pictures of John Dillinger's violent life...
...responsible for creating, and in many cases popping, every great bubble of nearly the past 100 years in order to profit from them at our expense - and the article uses plenty of illustrations of pigs to drive home what it thinks of Goldman. Taibbi calls the U.S. a "gangster state, running on gangster economics." He says we have an economy where "some of us have to play by the rules, while others get a note from the principal excusing them from homework 'til the end of time." And by "others" and "gangsters," Taibbi means the bankers of Goldman Sachs...