Word: roma
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...Britain. Despite the gravitational pull toward uniformity provided by the binding opinions of the European Court of Human Rights, a diverse Continent does not lend itself to a common approach. "It's like trying to nail down a jellyfish," says Vincenzo Zeno-Zencovich, a professor of comparative law at Roma Tre University. "Each country has its own taboos. What applies to Great Britain does not apply to Greece." The old law-school adage holds that hard cases make bad law, and when a country finds certain words upsetting enough to ban them, all the cases are hard. In December, breaking...
...evaluar el poder del arzobispo de San Antonio, Jos? G?mez, su ex jefe, el arzobispo de Denver, Charles Chaput, dice de manera entusiasta, "A ?l lo escuchan en el estado de Texas y en la Conferencia de Obispos de Estados Unidos. Lo escuchan en Roma. Y creo que el gobierno federal lo escuchar? cuando traten asuntos relacionados con las leyes de inmigraci?n?. El a?o pasado, G?mez fungi? como obispo auxiliar, trabajando para Chaput en Denver. Pero en diciembre, el papa Juan Pablo II coloc? al modesto cl?rigo de 53 a?os por encima de cientos de obispos para ser el centro...
...most difficult way to be popular is to tell people what they can eat. When Christians retooled Judaism, they didn't excise the Old Testament rules on adultery or idolizing graven images; they started drawing up plans for Tony Roma's and Red Lobsters. Martin Luther could have saved himself 94 theses just by posting one about getting rid of fish on Friday. The Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood has a Sunday brunch buffet you would not believe...
...Today show's "Live for Today" feature has sent a Salt Lake City, Utah, mom to sing on Broadway and an 81-year-old woman to the Kentucky Derby. Even Mark Burnett, producer of Survivor and The Apprentice, is developing a series in which Touched by an Angel's Roma Downey and Della Reese help people through problems...
...responsible, but the three-day Rainforest World Music Festival (rainforestmusic-borneo.com), now in its eighth year and attracting some 20,000 attendees annually to the east Malaysian state. Aside from the spectacular equatorial setting, the event has an impeccable musical pedigree; and this year's bill features 16 acts, from Roma (or gypsy) minstrels to Mongolian throat singers to percussionists from the Ivory Coast. Among the must-see musicians are Pakistan's Faiz Ali Faiz, whose trance-inducing qawwali rhythms draw deeply on Sufi traditions and Indian raga, and Florencio Mess, the rootsy Belizian harpist who personally crafts new instruments...