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Dec 21, 2020 Ezra F. Vogel, 90, one of the country’s leading experts on East Asia through a career that spanned six decades, passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday due to complications from surgery. Vogel studied an extraordinary range of substantive topics in multiple countries from the perspectives of various academic disciplines, retooling himself as a scholar many times over in his academic career. He was originally trained as a sociologist studying the family in the United States. He devoted two years to language study and field research in Japan in 1958-60, emergi...

Just remember that you were part of a criminal enterprise and you left it, and there is by their bylaws a hit on you. >> that's the way it goes. you're in it for life or you're dead, you know, there's no -- there's no way out of it. >> victor, who requested we only use his first name for security reasons, once a lieutenant in the mexican mafia. he defected, while serving a prior 23-year prison sentence for kidnapping and aggravated assault. victor was back in the bexar county jail on a parole violation. >> when a mafia member decides to defect after members of the mafia place a green light on ...

>> victor, who requested we only use his first name for security reasons, was once a lieutenant in the mexican mafia. he defected, while serving a prior 23-year prison sentence for kidnapping and aggravated assault. victor was back in the bexar county jail on a parole violation. >> when a mafia member decides to defect after members of the mafia place what's called a green light on that ex-member, there's a light on you, they will always beat you until you are no longer alive. so if they beat you one day, you happen to survive this assault, three weeks later you're walking down the street agai...

>> victor, who requested we only use his first name for security reasons, once a lieutenant in the mexican mafia. he defected, while serving a prior 23-year prison sentence for kidnapping and aggravated assault. victor was back in the bexar county jail on a parole violation. >> when a mafia member decides to defect after members of the mafia place a green light on that ex-member, there's a light on you, they will always beat you until you are no longer alive. so if they beat you one day, you happen to survive this assault, three weeks later you're walking down the street and see you, they're g...

Manageable as well. >> yeah. you're spot on, ed. it has been so unpredictable, hasn't it? it makes it impossible almost for authorities to be a step ahead, let's say, of hurricane irma. you spoke to the mayor. what was his biggest concern, his biggest challenge, let's say, ed? >> it's going to be that storm surge. generally people tend to compare their previous experiences to what to expect this time around. here in this corner of southwest florida it is hurricane wilma, which came back in 2005 and brought some of the strongest winds and tomorrow surge that they had seen and even the major sai...