Word: hippos
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...this 1,600th anniversary year, few tourists in Milan notice the halfconcealed cathedral doorway leading to the remains of the baptistry where a naked Augustine was immersed by St. Ambrose. In Annaba, Algeria, near the site of ancient Hippo, where Augustine served as priest and bishop, the occasion is being largely ignored. But in other places around the world, numerous conferences on Augustine's thought are marking the anniversary, including last week's assemblage of 500 scholars from 19 nations at the Rome headquarters of the Augustinian order. One notable in attendance, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's doctrinal overseer...
Augustine began work on The City of God, said to be the first philosophy of history ever written, in response to the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in A.D. 410. By the time other barbarians, the Vandals, had vanquished Hippo in A.D. 430, its august bishop was already dead at age 75. The hordes destroyed the city but preserved Augustine's library of writings. It was as if they sensed that the West might need to rely on his words for sustenance as the ancient world died away...
...circuit. The outfit made a pretty sight crossing the Red River on the highway from Hugo, Okla., where it holes up between November and March, to Paris, Texas, where the show would open the 1986 season. They numbered among them 80 brightly painted vehicles, 250 colorful people, a hippo, a rhino, a giraffe, assorted lions, tigers, llamas, horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and goats. The last to leave home base was the owner, D.R. Miller, who felt rather special and unhurried about this, his 50th year in the catbird seat...
Others, though, say that this position is, well, Hippo-critical. They point out that doctors, as some of the best-paid professionals in America, can hardly contend that they have not profited from medicine. Princeton Economist Uwe Reinhardt, who is participating in a study of for-profit health care, says that so far he has not seen much difference between the behavior of commercial and nonprofit hospitals. Says he: "Hiring big names is good business and good academics. It's one way to achieve a certain luster. DeVries and the artificial heart give Humana legitimacy in the medical world...
Burton loved to brag about how much he could drink, but his bouts with booze caused Taylor to divorce him in 1974. Fourteen months later they remarried in Botswana, with two rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains...