Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the official archdiocese site to the home page of the Turin fire brigade (which saved the relic during a fire last April). It can be discussed at the Centre International d'Etudes sur le Linceul de Turin in Paris, the Collegamento pro Sindone in Rome (sindon is the Latin word for shroud), Valencia's Centro Espanol de Sindonologia or with the members of variously titled organizations in England and the U.S., whose members happily refer to themselves as "shroudies." It finds its adherents among everyday Catholics and among the exalted as well: during an in-flight press conference...
...contest's rules do not specify whichlanguage the participants must speak. Matthew A.Carter '99, who is also a Crimson editor andresident of Dunster House, recited a selectionfrom Virgil's "Aeneid" in Latin, although heprovided a translation to the judges...
...Classics concentrator, the Latin question is naturally an easy one to answer. Of course our diplomas should be in Latin. The language may not be universally studied as it once was, but it remains the language of the educational tradition on which this school (and colleges and universities around the world) was founded. To return to Latin would be to acknowledge that tradition. As for the argument that very few of us take Latin anymore and therefore couldn't read our diplomas, I have two responses: first, the Latin on a diploma is not complex and we know what...
Leftist students doing the traditional Yankee-go-home hustle greeted President Clinton as he arrived in Chile, but it was their government that was more concerned about Washington. ?Ever since last year?s fast-track vote, the White House has been energetically trying to alter the Latin American perception that the United States has become a weak partner in the region,? says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. Clinton?s defeat on fast-track left him without the authority to expedite Chile?s admission into NAFTA...
Biggest blunder: Ineffectual "dollar diplomacy" interventions in China and Latin America...