Word: mediterraneans
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White-haired Fernand Braudel fingers a 13th century Florentine coin, its bronze surface green with age, as he muses on the grand passion of his life: the Mediterranean. "Everything about the Mediterranean has pleased me-the sea, the people, the food. It is a passion that burns you up. And nowadays, for me, the Mediterranean is too strong, too burning. It's all over...
...world's troublesome flash points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries but four -Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open, ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as early as this summer...
...tumult in Rome concerned the tangled case of Claudia Caputi, 18, victim of a brutal gang rape last August, who has become a feminist heroine. In Italy's male-dominated Mediterranean culture, rape has usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious...
...international competition held at Sotogrande. Sotogrande is a breathtaking course hewn out of the cork trees that grow in the lush valley of the Guadiare River. Two continents can be seen from the course as the misty silhouette of the Rock of Gibralter looms 22 miles out into the Mediterranean...
...contrast, it was mostly an elderly group (70% were 55 or older) who paid up to $2,500 each to fly the 7,100 miles from Los Angeles to Las Palmas, where they were to board the M.S. Golden Odyssey for a twelve-day "Mediterranean Highlights" cruise. The congenial tourists, including about 40 from the affluent retirement community of Leisure World near Laguna Hills, Calif, had some 75 unexpected extra minutes to get acquainted at Los Angeles International Airport when their charter flight was delayed. Roy L. Dorcich, 70, told Jim Naik, 37, an officer of the Royal Cruise Line...