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...work. They are diminutive in size but large in scale. Thick darkness and eerie light turn in the sky; the sea heaves, scattered with moon flakes and endowed with a Courbet-like solidity. "My soul, like to a ship in a black storm,/ Is driven, I know not whither" -- Vittoria's dying words in John Webster's Jacobean tragedy The White Devil seem to fit this recurrent dream of Ryder's coastal childhood, the boat scudding in the maw of the waves or becalmed, like a floating coffin, on the expectant water...
...Vatican as "a palace of gossipy eunuchs" and "a sea of brilliant bitchery." Last week a Vatican official derided Cornwell's findings as "lamentably gossipy." But disturbing as the author's conclusions may be, not everyone was displeased. "It's much better to appear a little ridiculous," said Vittoria Marigonda, secretary to Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, "than to be seen as a bunch of murderers...
...Avis, which in late 1987 was bought by its workers for $1.75 billion. For Avis employees, who borrowed all the money for the deal, the ESOP ended ten tumultuous years in which the company had five corporate owners. "We needed stability, once and for all," says Chairman Joe Vittoria, 53, who has worked in the industry since...
...Avis program, the company's 24 million shares are held in a trust and gradually released to employees as the debt is paid off over a 17-year period. Vittoria reserved 13% of the stock for key managers, "the 132 people I cannot afford to lose," who initially got at least 294 shares each. The other 12,300 employees were given a first-time allocation of two shares for every $1,000 in salary. Since each share is worth about $5 and the average Avis employee earns about $20,000 a year, this amounted...
Next door to Mike's is the Caffe Vittoria, a dark and atmospheric place with possibly the best cappuccino in Boston. I didn't have time to stop, but I wanted to. Musing over a cup of coffee is definitely among the best ways to finish a walk in the North End--watching the people, pondering change, or just dreaming about the day. Or any day. Somehow, in this part of town, it all seems very much the same...