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Even when not offending the sensibilities of the cozy coterie that runs the show, those outside the fold remain in the crosshairs. Except for the one time I was snatched up by the scruff of my neck and slammed against a wall, I was generally not subjected to physical violence. The mafia employ not physical, but psychological warfare to marginalize targets while solidifying the preeminence of their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian...
...Bertuzzi went Monday night, shadowing Moore, stride-for-stride, before sucker-punching him from behind and shoving his face into the ice so violently as to fracture his neck, give him a concussion and cut his face in several places. A pool of blood formed about him on the ice. Moore was unconscious for a time and had to be taken off on a stretcher...
...neck is broken. He’s done for the season. Maybe forever...
...should reflect logic flowing from scrupulous moral deliberation. That may seem a callous thing to say, especially given the heartfelt appeals for stem-cell research from the likes of Michael J. Fox, who is afflicted with Parkinson’s disease, and Christopher Reeve, who is paralyzed from the neck down. But our intrinsic human yearning to discover enhanced palliative treatments and unprecedented cures must not trump fundamental principles of justice...
...President, by the Philippine Supreme Court; in Manila. The popular actor faced disqualification from the race, because his mother was American and not married to his father at the time of his birth in the Philippines. The latest survey by pollster Social Weather Stations shows Poe neck and neck with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ahead of the May 10 election...