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Which is exactly what Christopher J. Georges '86-'87 and James A. Messina '86 decided to do. The two college roommates compiled and edited "The Harvard Independent Insider's Guide to Prep Schools" which aspiring preppies can purchase in bookstores throughout the country...
Independent editors contributed to the writing and editing of the entries, says Yarowsky. Georges also convinced Messina, his roommate, to help him compile, edit and layout the book. "I got involved because I thought it would be interesting, and I felt we could do a better job than the Yale Book [a similar publication], and because it was the kind of writing I like to do--as funny as possible, but informative," says Messina, who did not attend a prep school...
Last June Georges and Messina began the project in earnest and Georges and his sister Gigi spent the entire summer working on it. The two updated the entries Georges already had, found volunteers to write others, and interviewed alumni for entries on the remaining schools...
Bonanno. Joseph Messina, 43, is already acting as boss of the family, according to Franceschini. He had been a capo for only four years, when his superior, Philip Rastelli, 68, was indicted in the commission case. (Rastelli has a heart condition and will stand trial alone when his health permits.) Messina promptly took over Rastelli's role...
Israel, it seems, was convinced that the hydrofoils, each with a capacity of 150 passengers, had been sent to Messina to be fitted with guns and armor plating so they could be used to ferry Fatah guerrillas into the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, from which they were driven by Israeli troops in 1982. The plan, say the Israelis, was for Fatah fighters to make a dash for the Lebanese coast from Cyprus on the high-speed hydrofoils under cover of night. And how did the Israeli spooks who foiled the plan smuggle bombs into Italy? "You just come...