Astor Club a remark which led to a gangland war (Cornell himself being shot dead in March 1966 in front of witnesses at the bar of the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel) and so, ultimately, to the trials and sentences which destroyed both the Kray and Richardson gangs. Indeed, when the Krays were arrested for the Cornell murder (two years after the fact), they were drinking (at 6 a.m.) at The Lion pub, Bethnal Green, intending to move on later to the Astor. The Astor survived beyond the era of the Krays and Richardsons and continued to attract wealthy customers. An Astor
The Cornell Progressive (newspaper) controversy, and Cornell students launched a campaign to discredit the allegedly fraudulent March 2005 Student Assembly elections – both events influenced in large part by "TL" reporting and opinion. In the Spring of 2007, co-editors Shai Akabas '09 and Ethan Felder '09 launched a successful but controversial campaign to change the name of the publication to "The Cornell Progressive". The executive board voted 6-2 to amend the organization's constitution in March 2007. In 2005, "Turn Left" began to bill itself as "Cornell's premier political newspaper," signaling its editors' belief that it eclipsed the once monolithic "Cornell Review" in terms of