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...Vito returns to draw an ugly line down the old man's belly with a stiletto. He has succumbed to the revenge ethic. The final five minutes of the film show three of Michael's closest associates dying by his command--his brother, his greatest rival partner and his oldest family retainer. But Vito's revenge was satisfying and to an extent just: Michael's leaves him empty and alone in his chateau on Lake Tahoe, not much more than a pawn in a long cycle of violence, that he will have to hand...
Massachusetts Correctional Institute Bridgewater is not a hospital; it is the state's oldest and largest prison, a maximum-security fortress, the bulk of which was built nearly 100 years ago. Most of the cells have a window. If the prisoner looks through the three layers of steel and wire that shield the window, he will see a walled-in grass plot, his only change of scenery from the decaying prison. The cells were built with three-inch slits above the doors for air, but these have been sealed off so the prisoners cannot throw their shit into the corridors...
...artist's reverence for the subtle peculiarities of his material is a characteristic of all the jades exhibited. The basic vocabulary of jade shapes was established very early in the Neolithic and Shang periods and for the next millenium generated a seemingly endless language of creative inspiration. The oldest jade carvings are flat, rounded pi disks ranging in size from a foot to a few inches with circular perforations, and ritual reproductions of Neolithic stone tools such as axes, chisels and knives, and of Bronze Age weapons like dagger-axes and spearheads...
Nickerson, the oldest of the five Fellows of Harvard College, was chairman of the board of Mobil Oil and served on the Corporation since...
...Corporation, made up of the five Fellows, President Bok and Treasurer George Putnam '49, theoretically runs the University; it is the nominal owner of all Harvard property and rules on everything from appointments to finance to educational policy. It is the oldest corporation in the country...