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Robert Nichols has been I hired as the executive director of the Southwest Region Planning Commission, which assists Keene, N.H., and 30 surrounding communities in planning issues. Bob has been the director of planning and development for Claremont, N.H., since 1988.

"Forget about it! This is the best gangster book ever written!" says Jimmy Breslin about George Anastasias' new book Blood and Honor:Inside the Scarfo Mob—The Mob's Most ViolentFamily (William Morrow Cos; $22.00; September 19, 1991). This is the story of Nick Caramandi, trusted lieutenant to Nicodemo Scarfo, who fell victim to Scarfo's paranoia and testified against his former boss, providing up-to-date accounts of how the mob operates in detail not heard since Joe Valachi broke the code of silence in 1963.

George has won over a dozen awards for investigative journalism and magazine writing and since 1975 has been with The Philadelphia Inquirer as city hall bureau chief and, most recently, as a reporter specializing in organized and white-collar crime.

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