Word: 200th
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...nation's 302 Roman Catholic bishops were in a celebratory mood last week as they met in Baltimore to mark the 200th anniversary of the founding of the first American diocese. But their deliberations quickly turned sober as they confronted thorny problems that dominated the agenda. Among their actions: a response to AIDS that urges compassion for those with HIV infection -- and strict chastity as the only sure way to avoid the disease -- but sidesteps the bishops' earlier qualified toleration of condom education; a reiterated call for a Palestinian homeland and security for Israel; and a stepped-up antiabortion campaign...
This week Von Raab, 47, leaves office with an encouraging prod from Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady. Treasury officials say Brady asked Von Raab to be gone late Monday, after he presides at a ceremony marking the 200th anniversary of the Customs Service...
February 11: Men's hockey Coach Bill Cleary wins his 200th career game as Harvard tops B.C. in the consolation game...
...appropriate start -- first uplift, then excess. Just like the original revolution. Reconciliation is the official theme of the 200th anniversary of modern France's cataclysmic birth, but nearly four months into the celebration the French seem as much cleaved as healed by the occasion. For if the revolution sprang from the idealism of the Enlightenment, promising liberty and equality, it soon deteriorated into a bloodbath that led to a dictatorship. Ever since, lurching wildly through two empires, two royal restorations and five republics, democratic France has tried to bridge the contradictions posed by its brutal beginning. Even today, when...
...example, the famous storming of the Bastille prison -- of which the French are noisily celebrating the 200th anniversary this summer -- was hardly a storming at all. The outnumbered and ill-supplied defenders (whose oppressed prisoners consisted of just two lunatics, four forgers and one aristocratic ne'er-do-well put away by his family) finally surrendered when they saw themselves confronting the rioters' artillery, which included a silver-inlaid cannon originally given to France by the King of Siam. And the commandant of the Bastille, who had tried to avoid further bloodshed, was subsequently hacked to death, his head stuck...