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...keeps: "If I have the chance to shake the hand of every Sicilian, even with the risk of shaking the wrong hand, it's a risk I'm prepared to take." The perennial Mafia question is once again at the center of an election campaign to lead the semi-autonomous region of 5 million people. The vote comes just seven weeks after Provenzano was captured by police in the hills near his hometown of Corleone, following four decades on the lam. And beyond that high-profile arrest, and Cuffaro's legal cloud, there is a center-left challenger whose very...
...guests who use them most often. These personal touches include a a hand-painted ceiling design, built-in bookshelves and hardwood flooring. The initial revamp so impressed the Mobil judges that they restored the five-star rating in 2003. Since then, the final touches, such as a semi-enclosed treetop terrace for tastings from the hotel's 40,000-bottle cellar, have helped the Bel-Air keep its top Mobil designation...
...past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani doling out on-the-spot critiques a la Simon Cowell. (Kakutani: "Roth, that was self-indulgent, semi-literate trash! No wonder you never got that trip to Sweden." Roth: [tries to look brave, then sobs uncontrollably onto David Foster Wallace's shoulder...
...That’s a horrible, horrible move on the show.” Vaz, who is currently enrolled at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, won the quarterfinals game that aired on Wednesday night, guaranteeing that he will at least take home $10,000. His semi-finals game will air next week. According to Vaz, the shows for the tournament were all taped last month, and he knows the outcome. But Jeopardy! producers require contestants to keep quiet about results until the shows air. Vaz said, however, that a “follow-up” story...
...construction worker fell nearly 30 feet from a Harvard construction site on Monday, suffering severe back injuries and prompting an investigation to determine if the University—or its contractors—can be held liable. The worker, whose name was not released, was “semi-conscious” and was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital after he fell from the construction site on 52 Oxford Street at 12:53 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief and Public Information Officer James Burns. “The medics stabilized him and transported...