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...when HBO set out to make a drama about Rome in the time of Julius Caesar, Job One was to dirty up the Eternal City. Rome (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T., debuts Aug. 28) eschews the popular white-marble myth. "Part of the brief was to create an image of Rome nobody has seen before," says executive producer Frank Doelger. Historic Rome, he says, was a teeming capital full of color, pornographic graffiti and coed public latrines. It was crowded, relentlessly commercial (a town crier's announcement in one episode ends with an ad for a flour miller) and, above...
...Eventually, writer Ehren Kruger (“The Ring”) builds up enough back story—combined with some freaky black-and-white film work—to get us believing for a moment, too. If this mirrored effect is intentional, it is a brief appearance of genius. If not, at least it gets the blood pumping...
...HUPD officers apprehended two individuals wanted for shoplifting by the Cambridge Police Department (CPD). After a brief struggle, the CPD officers placed the suspects under arrest...
That kind of scene, brief and benign though it might seem, strikes horror into the hearts of scientists and science teachers across the U.S., not to mention plenty of civil libertarians. Darwin's venerable theory is widely regarded as one of the best-supported ideas in science, the only explanation for the diversity of life on Earth, grounded in decades of study and objective evidence. But Dover's disclaimer on Darwin would appear to get a passing grade from the man who considers himself America's education President. In a question-and-answer session with Texas newspaper reporters...
...Europe" - since your report included sites in Turkey as well as at Lake Baikal, both of which are generally considered as being in Asia. I was also disappointed that nothing in Greece of historical or architectural importance or natural beauty was deemed worthy of inclusion. To exclude even a brief mention of Greece from your articles showed a lack of history, for had it not been for Greek culture, the word "Europe" itself would not have been around for use in your cover title. Nadine A. Papachristou Athens A Terrorist in Training Your report about the Iraqi suicide bomber...