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...In the Texas border town of Eagle Pass one Saturday in December, volunteers planted 700 crosses on the riverfront in memory of the lives lost crossing into the country in the past year alone....
...Across town, a Michigan state patrolman comes home from vacation to discover something is amiss. It looks as though someone has been in his house....
...(In a shortsighted decision, the Brooklyn-based Gambino family failed years ago to appreciate the rise of containers and ceded much of the Jersey side of the port to the Genoveses)....
...‘It’s the same old Sh*t Town’: Tyler Goodson explains how S-Town changed his life — Esquire....
...He had made his fair share of big studio films, such as The Hunger Games series and last year’s War for the Planet of the Apes — not to mention his Oscar-nominated performance this year as a small-town police...
...Today, Woodstock and the town of Saugerties attract the bulk of high-end property buyers, says Harris Safier, principal broker at Westwood Metes & Bounds Realty....
...Among them were members of the Inzerillo family, which had close ties with the Gambino crime syndicate in the US....
...During her tenure Ms White oversaw high-profile prosecutions, including those against the perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and John Gotti, the boss of the Gambino crime family....
...Only once, at the Austrian-Czech border, did a patrolman ask what he was up to....
...But as he sat in court, day after day, one of the things that preoccupied the Gambino crime boss was his receding hairline....
...Across the Rip Van Winkle bridge on the poorer western side of the valley, towns such as Saugerties, Athens and Coxsackie, while clinging picturesquely to the river, retain a certain depressed emptiness...
...On the way to Starke, I stopped on Florida’s Atlantic coast, in a town called Melbourne, and met Dan Fisher, a police patrolman who was hit on the shoulder on July 1 1986....
...He would have been happy with a sandwich and coffee at my office, but it is halfway across town. “You know food is not a central part of my life,” he e-mailed from New York before the trip....
...This was one really, really hacked off California patrolman and, with hindsight, his home patch of small, picture-postcard towns, wooded hills and narrow, winding roads was not the best venue for the international...
...It was the stuff of westerns itself: the vote-swinging intervention at the saloon summit or church meeting when the hero stops a lynching or bestirs a town to beat off the baddies....
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