Word: maximus
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...prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury in March convicted four others of plotting the Tanzania bombing and the deadlier attack on the U.S. embassy in Kenya that resulted in 224 fatalities. DIED. MAXIMUS V HAKIM, 93, 20th patriarch of the breakaway Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; in Beirut. Greek Catholics split from the East Orthodox Church in 1724 to accept the authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer...
...CINEMUS MAXIMUS Gladiator DREAMWORKS Long absent from most theaters, the film was screened at Academy HQ to "celebrate the DVD release." In further celebration, the studio sent out extravagant "making-of" coffee-table books...
...started thinking about the legitimacy of Jesse Jackson. A few minutes before Gephardt, Jackson was Russert's guest on "Meet the Press." Jackson has become unelected pontifex maximus of African America. He makes the rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks at what is presumed to be their disenfranchisement. He was the leadoff voice in an op-ed symposium in the Sunday New York Times on the question, "Can Bush Mend His Party's Rift With Black America...
...advocating the abolition of the buffet. Nevertheless, I think that we can do a better job judging what quantity of cod, corn or Cracklin' Oat Bran we take. When you can always go back for seconds, why take a gladiatorial proportion and realize that you are not Maximus as you throw your silverware down the shoot and watch a plate of cold London broil on its way to a Cambridge garbage truck...
Crowe could be a nicer fellow but hardly a better actor. His Maximus is a cousin to the haunted Wigand, a powerful man troubled by the things he has to do. It is a delicate, indelible portrait. To Gladiator, a film in need of a star and a working-class hero, Crowe brings strength and honor...