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Authorities said yesterday that they broke up an estimated $10 million- to $12 million-a-year gambling ring, arrested nine people and seized about $450,000 in cash and several high-end cars.

Wearing his frayed Red Sox cap and surrounded by the soft-bread pan sobao and other Spanish specialties, Philadelphia grocer Juan Carlos Romano was at work last week in his Juniata Park bodega.

By Rosa Cao CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Junot Díaz is a writing professor at MIT. His new novel, published last year, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is the story of a fat Dominican “ghetto-nerd,” who loves science fiction and fantasy genre more than life, and loves women even more than genre. He’s born and raised in New Jersey, but only finds true ...