Word: roman
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Entering the museum, one is first greeted by an overabundance of life: Vibrantly green vegetation bursts out of a brilliantly lit four-story courtyard littered, or so it seems, with the remnants of the Roman Empire. A head-less marble statue stands in one corner, a decorated sarcophagus in another. It's as if a piece of the eternal city had been cut out and transferred to Boston. One can only stand and admire. The eye of the visitor is soon also drawn to a long line of people apparently waiting for something very special, visible through...
Melendez, a Roman Catholic, said she felt that taking the class would be a good way to learn more about her religion...
LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
...family, the side left behind when her father, Josef Korbel, fled Czechoslovakia after WWII. The trickle grew to a torrent, many from Arab groups questioning her nomination as Secretary of State in December. And on Monday, the surprising story came out in the Washington Post: Madeline Albright, raised a Roman Catholic by her Czech parents, had learned that she has Jewish roots, and that several close relatives, including her paternal grandparents, died in Nazi concentration camps. Albright told the Post that the news was compelling, but that she wanted to conduct her own research. "Obviously it is a very personal...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? too is about characters being stripped of their illusions--but here they do it in a garish, Roman-Colosseum spectacle. The conceit of Albee's play--two couples spend a long, booze-soaked night exposing their secrets and lies--has been copied so often that it might seem passe by now. But Davies' production quickly brushes away any cobwebs. Diana Rigg, as Martha, the university president's daughter frustrated with her underachieving history-teacher husband, is acid, sexy and funny without turning into a camp diva spewing one-liners. She is matched snide-for-snide...