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...support free and fair competition. U.S. Shuttle offers cheap fares, however, only because they themselves are getting a free ride. As a Boston-based company, they are exempt from all medallion fees charged other Cambridge taxis--an unfair, unconscionable preferential treatment...
...proposal would have allowed US Shuttle to make regular trips between Cambridge hotels and the airport without paying the $85,000 medallion fee local hackneys are charged...
...seen in other werewolf movies, Will visits an Indian sage of the occult to find out what he can do for his little hairy problem. The sage/doctor, played by Om Puri, informs Will that his transformation will be permanent with the next full moon unless he wears the medallion which he gives him. In return the doctor asks for will to bite him. Old and close to death, the doctor would rather live life as a tyrannical werewolf than die. With his old wrinkled hand held limply in front of his face, the audience is held in suspense...
...climactic final scene, with the full moon shining, Laura puts Will in the only place on her father's enormous estate which doesn't have windows, the barn. With the horses going crazy in the other stalls, Will fights with the werewolf powers of the Universe as his medallion burns a hold into his chest. He sweats, he pants he thrashes with all the energy and method acting which Nicholson can muster. Predictably enough, Stewart has been infected by the disease when Will snapped at him in a fight and cut his hand. He arrives at the estate and decides...
David A. Hamburg, president of the CarnegieCorporation of New York, received the firstRadcliffe College Charter Medallion Saturday...