Word: roman
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Quite simply, Rome wasn't built in a day, Harvard Stadium's architectural resemblance to a Roman coliseum notwithstanding...
...Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It's never exactly been off the beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums: graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been coming as well, for centuries at least. Napoleon brought his own team of excavators when he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in the 19th and early...
...April 24] misrepresents the extent of religious freedom there. Vietnam -- perhaps Asia's most spiritual country (it is overwhelmingly Buddhist) -- is entering the fifth decade of the communist government's campaign to eradicate all independent worship. Authorities still persecute religious leaders who dare to organize outside government-controlled churches. Roman Catholicism is decapitated by Hanoi's blocking the Vatican's appointment of bishops and imposing tight restrictions on those allowed to attend seminaries. Protestant church leaders who hold unauthorized meetings have been hit with staggering fines. In the past three years, the Puebla Institute, a human-rights group focusing...
Advance word on The Information was that it was a roman a clef of sorts about Amis' relationship with his friend, the novelist Julian Barnes. But Amis is too subtle for those kinds of games. Looking for the author in the text denies the fact thatThe Information is capable of standing...
...Harvard reading period is a little like the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Admittedly, it may take place at Harvard, and it may span a period of time (11 or 12 days, depending on which way the stars are aligned this term), but it is certainly not a period for reading...