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...move further away from the cultural centers of the Empire, there seems to be a discrete but perceptible dropping off of Roman culture," Sandburg says, scratching his beard. "It's kind of a logical thing, but no one's ever tested it. Burials seemed like a good place to start, because they're a closed context, yet they're an intimate reflection of society. In a way, they're like time capsules--by looking at the objects in them, you can get a good sense of to what extent the culture is Roman, and to what extent it's indigenous...
...wore a gray suit and had an unkempt beard. He said his kidnappers had broken his hearing aid when he was seized in a west Beirut street May 7 and he could not hear well...
Actually Karl, who sports a small hoop earing and a scruffy reddish-brown beard, is a 21-year old guitar student at the Berklee School of Music. He says he gets a kick out of playing up to late night visitors who expect bizarre behavior from a diner cook. "Sometimes I practice my expressions before a mirror," he jokes...
Police later identified the assailant as Karamjit Singh, 26, a resident of Punjab state, where Sikh terrorists are agitating for independence. While Singh is a Sikh who had shaved his beard and cut his hair to disguise his identity, authorities concluded that the crude assassination try was a lone terrorist act rather than part of an organized Sikh conspiracy. The day after the attempt on Rajiv Gandhi's life, Sikh radicals in Punjab shot and slightly wounded J.F. Ribeiro, director general of the state police force...
...three-day growth of beard and was still wearing the rumpled tan trousers he had on when arrested 13 days earlier. But Nicholas Daniloff was < ebullient, witty and still possessed of his reporter's instinct for summarizing a story. As the Cadillac carrying him from Moscow's Lefortovo Prison on Friday night stopped before cheering reporters gathered nearby, Daniloff, 51, popped out, threw his arms into the air and whooped with joy. Nonetheless he quickly observed, "I am not a free man today." Later, as he and his wife Ruth took up temporary residence at the U.S. embassy, Daniloff explained...