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January 31, 1999

The Don Is Done

John J. Gotti, the bloody-minded truck hijacker who led the Gambino crime family to ruination, has a friend in Joseph Castellano, whose father Gotti murdered.

The murder took place in midtown Manhattan on a December evening in 1985, in front of Sparks Steak House, which, owing to the death of Paul Castellano at its threshold, is now a popular tourist destination. John Gotti did not actually shoot Joseph Castellano's father, but he arranged the killing and handpicked the assassins--"button men" is the archaic term for their profession--who did the job. A jury found Gotti guilty in Castellano's murder, and other murders, in 1992.
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January 6, 1999

Do as I Say, Not as I Do

By way of introducing our subject--providing for the material needs of a baby--a caveat: Whatever it is, you don't need it.

In other words, do as I say, not as I've done. It is permissible, I believe, to shop like a mad dog for your first child and, when Daughter No. 1 arrived nearly two years ago, I did. But when my auxiliary daughter appeared on the scene last month, I learned not one lesson from the mistakes of previous rampages.
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