Word: roman
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...ANCIENT times, Cato the Elder ended each and every one of his speeches before the Roman Senate with the words "Cartago delenda est"--"Carthage must be destroyed." And the city-state across the Mediterranean--Rome's largest commercial rival--eventually was annihilated in the course of the Punic Wars...
...list of international society in the 16th century: the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Alfonso d'Este, Duke Federigo of Mantua, Ippolito de' Medici, several ancient and cunning Popes, doges, admirals, art dealers, intellectuals. Even those who were deadly enemies, like Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, had in common the fact of having been painted by Titian. The story of Charles V picking up a brush that Titian had dropped and handing it back to the painter may be apocryphal, but it sums up the sense of deference and even awe that Titian...
Investigative journalist William Bastone, who is writing a book about Gigante and his younger brother Louis, a controversial Roman Catholic priest, says he believes Chin really has gone mad in recent years. Gigante is now undergoing a couchful of psychiatric tests, and a federal judge may rule next month on whether he is competent to stand trial. Until then, he rests in a locked unit at a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York. His brother is outraged at the federal prosecutors. "If I had an American flag in front of me, I would spit on it and burn it," shouted...
...point of keen speculation is whether Gigante talks business with his younger brother Louis, a cussing, cigar-chomping, Roman Catholic priest who is celebrated for overseeing the creation of 2,000 low-income housing units. That reputation has been tarnished by accusations that Father Gigante's nonprofit group doled out tens of millions of dollars in government housing grants to Genovese-tied subcontractors. The priest claims he had nothing to do with the selection of these companies. "I purposely stayed out of it," he says. But the priest does commend one contractor, a Genovese captain who is now imprisoned...
...A.B.A. had decided to reconsider after 1,500 of its 360,000 members quit in protest, costing the organization $300,000 in dues. The vote was a victory for pro-life forces, who had waged a $50,000 campaign, with the help of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh also pitched in, warning the group that the A.B.A.'s role as an evaluator of federal judges could be compromised by the pro-choice stance...