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...reopening of the Borsellino case has prompted others to talk as well. Several top Italian government and law-enforcement officials involved in the early 1990s probes have given their version of events in interviews. Also speaking out was the son of the former mayor of Palermo, Vito Ciancimino, who was the local political link for the Corleonese clan. Massimo Ciancimino has reportedly revealed a portion of the contents of his late father's secret archives, which investigators hope can help solve a series of Mafia mysteries, including the state's alleged role in the Borsellino killing. (Read "Meet the Modern...
...Meritt and sophomore Thea Lee also won a silver medal for the Crimson in the 1600-meter sprint medley with a time of 4:01.97.For the men’s team, sophomore Ryan Neely placed third in the 3000-meter run, while the Harvard distance medley team of juniors Vito Cannavo and Robert Kenney, and freshmen Jaques Barjon and Darcy Wilson, claimed gold.In the last events of the day, Weiler placed second in the pole vault and Farnsworth placed third in the javelin throw. Senior Neville Irani and sophomore Eric Clayman also claimed the top two positions in the hammer...
...Eliot resident took issue with the t-shirt design depicting Pertile as Vito Corleone, complete with the caption "The Housemaster." The Godfather, the resident wrote on the house list, portrays a "rather romanticized notion of mob violence that has helped propagate the stereotype associating Italians with violent crime." In other words, the mafia likes to kill people, and Pertile is certainly not the man for the job (he'd rather take a stab at Dante's Inferno, thank you very much, after the jump...
...most apparently popular submission for the Eliot House freshman day T-shirt featured the likeness of House Master Lino Pertile as the character of Don Vito Corleone, the eponymous crime boss in The Godfather. An Eliot House resident, who was also a member of the Italian American Association, had written to the e-mail list explaining that the implicit association of “mobsters” with Italian culture still offends many people who share her heritage and requested they consider another design for the shirt. The message was polite, made no accusations, and presumed upon Harvard students?...
...freshman Chukwuma Ogunwole placed eighth and 13th in the 200-meter dash, finishing at 23.19 and 23.59, respectively.In the 400-meter dash, junior Justin Grinstead finished fifth, with a time of 49.98, while newcomer Brian Paison took 10th in the 800-meter run at 1:55.85.Freshman Dan Stiles, junior Vito Cannavo, and sophomores Mark Hirschboeck and Alex Brenner all competed in the one-mile run. Stiles finished ninth at 4:23.17, Cannavo was 11th with 4:24.93, Hirschboeck was 12th with 4:25.25, and Brenner was 14th with 4:29.79.A trio of Harvard runners placed in the men?...