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...only comparably dazzling spectacle was the one in the next ring, where McCain was loudly assuring conservative Republican loyalists that he was one too, not some kind of closet Democrat, and that it was O.K. to vote for him; they wouldn't burn in hell--in fact, they might at last wind up with a winner in November. "Don't fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans. Join it," he said, again and again...
...whole country is watching," said political strategist Mike Murphy. "They'll see whether you're mopey or if you're ready to be President." McCain quickly started to come out of it. Aides could see him say to himself, "What? A fight?" as if he could hop into the ring at that moment. Soon the candidate came up with the first line he would use with Russert. "I've crashed a couple of planes and slept in a hotel where they don't leave a mint on the pillow," he said to aides who could almost hear the sound track...
...feds' investigation did not, in fact, begin with the auctioneers. In the early 1990s, the Justice Department turned its scrutiny on private dealers in an effort to nail the ones who indulged in "ring" bidding--the technique of defrauding sellers by agreeing not to bid against one another in the auction room so that the low-balled object could then be sold by the ring at a second, informal auction of dealers only. About a dozen dealers and collectors were convicted. But Justice decided that the paper trail compiled in those cases might lead further--to Sotheby's and Christie...
...Ringed by the run-down buildings of Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington Elementary is the picture of a frayed inner-city school. Eighty-five percent of the students live below the poverty level. And a security guard keeps students inside--and intruders out--once the morning bell rings. But enter El-Roy Estes' fourth-grade classroom and you'll see a model of order. As students wearing crisp blue-and-white uniforms file in, Estes studies a three-ring binder to find out what's on tap for this morning, Day 111 of the school year. He begins...
...turning state's evidence looks like petty theft when compared with the sins Gravano may have committed against Mafia style. Last week the former hit man, 54, was arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang called the Devil Dogs that hung out at the local Taco Bell. Taco Bell! Somewhere John Gotti is laughing hysterically. And Vito Corleone...