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The New York Daily News beat: First off, if you're gay and in the mob, you're as good as dead. This just in from a 'mob turncoat.' Guess I'll have to cancel that date with Whitey Bulger...

And Just if you thought you knew what it meant to be patriotic, a major carrier of Nightline has instructed member stations not to air the program which will read all of the names of U.S. GIs killed abroad. They say it's "not in the public interest."

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