Word: cupolaed
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...sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball into the cupola on top of Briggs Hall...
...series of successes by the government since it began to get tough with entrenched crime following the 1992 murders of two of the country's top Mafia prosecutors. Last September, Giuseppe ("Piddu") Madonia, a member of the Mafia's 24-man decision-making body known as the Cupola, was caught after police tapped his portable phone. The same week Carmine Alfieri, the leader of the Camorra, the Naples crime syndicate that competes and cooperates with the Sicilian Mafia, was taken into custody. Even Riina's 84-year-old uncle was picked up in the search for the top don. Nonetheless...
...Palermo last week, some residents expressed jubilation, but most had nothing to say. "It's none of my business," grunted a young man on a motorcycle. "Knowing too much about that stuff is dangerous." It will remain so, even with Riina behind bars. At least five members of the Cupola are still at large. According to some sources, they long ago sketched out an agreement on how to divide the shepherd's fields and flock...
...buoy or cloy. But when the Disney Imagineers get it right, they get it big. Euro Disney's Disneyland Hotel, the Imagineers' pink Victorian palace, boasts a giant Mickey Mouse clock and, at night, thousands of light bulbs that trace the spine of every ornate gable and cupola. The capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces the highboy; in the bathrooms, Hyacinth Hippo, in her Fantasia tutu, cavorts in various poses on the bathtub tile...
Cambridge architect Graham Gund originally planned a large hotel designed to fit in with the architecture of nearby Harvard buildings--among them Eliot House and Lehman Hall. As a finishing touch, one rendition of the building was topped with a Georgian cupola similar to the one which once adorned the Gulf station...