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...with Luciano's anointing of Sicilian-born Joseph Bonanno, then just 26, to rein in one of New York's warring crime gangs and sit on the newly formed Mafia Commission (Bonanno died in 2002 at 97). Bonanno's son Bill, 72, admits he ran the family for a brief, chaotic period in the '60s (true) and claims that he and his father were Mario Puzo's inspiration for Michael and Vito Corleone (debatable). He subscribes to Puzo's vision of the Mafia as a grand old society that the New World corrupted. (For full effect as you read this...
Ophthalmologist Jacob Wayne Streilein passed away two weeks ago at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a brief illness...
...only way I can rationalize the incident is as a brief, though major, lapse in judgement. I can only hope the consequences won’t be long-term,” Hobeika said...
...attended to by the trainers and resumed her match after a brief timeout. If she was suffering from any effects of her injury, it was hard to discern, as she won out her remaining games of the match...
...news of the departure of Lauren E. Brown, a graduate student in history whom several students described as a charismatic and popular member of the House, came in a brief e-mail sent to all Quincy residents by House Master Robert P. Kirshner ’70 early Saturday morning...