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...task of cobbling together another coalition government promises to be more arduous than usual. Whatever emerges as Italy's 44th postwar government, it will almost certainly be a transitional stop on the way to the 45th. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Barry Kalb/Rome
...gesture of blessing. Then the Pope joined 20 bishops in golden robes in a solemn ceremony beatifying Sister Urszula Ledochowska, a Polish educator who organized Catholic schools before World War I. As the Pope conferred on Sister Urszula the title "blessed," the next-to-last step in the arduous path to sainthood, a life-size portrait of the nun in simple gray habit was unveiled...
...time when most people lived and died within ten miles of their birthplace, when travel was dauntingly arduous and news of other countries was the most expensive commodity in Europe, Holbein was a completely international man: he worked in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and, especially, England. His work, despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet...
...those seeking an M.D. these days, the race begins early, the course is arduous, and the prize, once achieved, may hardly seem worth the effort. Medical students grumble about the unceasing pressures, the torrents of material, the lack of time to think, much less relax. And they are not the only ones complaining. Patients gripe that the products of this regimen, the current crop of doctors, have no compassion, run their practices like assembly lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning...
Trop's climb back was arduous. He had sold off his art collection and mortgaged his house to pay for his habit. He went through a series of treatment clinics and rebuilt his marriage and career. Even though he has not had cocaine in nearly three years, he is on guard...