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I chose a piece called "Idaho Rancher Revealed as Gangster From Boston" by William Yardley.

The lead is effective because it catches my attention on what is going on. It adds to what i suspect from the title of the article. There is an introduction to the person this story is about. 

"Enrico Ponzo was never a proper mobster, a “made man” in the vernacular of the underworld. He was a renegade, prosecutors say, part of a violent faction intent on ousting the bosses of the powerful Patriarca crime family in Boston in the early 1990s."

Although it doesn't really reveal what the whole story is about, it helps me understand who this person was and who he became later on. 

The story starts with Ponzo history and what he did in the 1990s. Then it states that he went missing for some time. the story reveals that he has been gone for 2 decade making a new like in Idaho as a farmer. "He became a remade man." He was known my neighbors as a good and helpful person. no one would ever suspect Ponzo to be any type of criminal let alone a gangster. It then moves on to how Ponzo was caught and what led him to be arrested. Him and his ex-girlfriend were in a custody dispute with their 2 children and also wanted to request his name on the birth certificate. He was arrested before this could happen.

Then the story changes to Ponzo's background on family and what exactly happened when he attempted murder of Francis Salemme, a k a Cadillac Frank. surprisingly Ponzo plans to come back to his home in Idaho and have told neighbors there to watch over his home. 

The quotes and paraphrases are used to help the reader better understand the situation. There would be times where i would get lost in the story, but the quotes definitely helped me.