Word: fates
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...that the Church of England's portfolio is free of such sinful enterprises as pornography and gambling, he credits the recent high performance to a terrestrial treasure: real estate. "It is fortuitous that the portfolio is weighted more toward property than other comparable funds," Henderson says. A similar happy fate has helped turn around the balance sheet on the Holy See's some €200 million annual operating budget, which accounts for the Roman Curia, Vatican diplomatic missions and media outlets. With the sale of several palazzos in Italy and an overall appreciation in real estate value, the Vatican closed...
...story begins when Bodoni, a “sixtyish” antiquarian book-dealer whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...
...Already, one of the most beautiful legacies of India's colonial past?the bungalows in New Delhi designed by the great Edwin Lutyens?are fast disappearing: all those in private hands were demolished between 1980 and 2000. Last autumn, India's Central Public Works Department announced that the same fate now awaits the Lutyens bungalows owned by the government?despite the fact that the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage is currently proposing that Lutyens' New Delhi be named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The destruction of probably the world's greatest colonial townscape would...
...culture must be appeased. After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation (or, if I am mistaken, a more emphatic purging such as People Power or a coup), we will settle back to a comfortable regime of elastic rules and mediated processes. It is our culture?and our fate...
...FRANKENSTEIN; SOME READERS MIGHT COMPLAIN, BUT IT'S A GREAT FILM." Less impressed was Alexander Shectman of Jerusalem, who said, "My Russian patriotism was offended by the absence of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and I was astonished to see that those of D.W. Griffith shared the same fate. And yet you included Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1936 Olympics!" You can check out the list, send us your thoughts and vote for your own favorite films at time.com/100movies....