Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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University officials announced Wednesday that J. Bryan Hehir, the Divinity School's interim leader for the past eight months, will become the school's permanent head, making him the first Roman Catholic ever to hold the position at Harvard...
...used to be you had to be a Roman emperor to change the calendar. Now all it takes is a Senate seat. Locked in a game of fiscal chicken with Bill Clinton, Republican Senate leaders are embracing a time-warping plan to make this year?s budgetary ends meet: They?re adding a 13th month to the upcoming fiscal year. "We all know we engage in a lot of smoke and mirrors," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) told the Washington Post on Monday. "But we have to fund education, NIH, worker safety and other programs. It's a question...
...heat for these moments; writers just take the money. It has ever been thus. Bob Hope's gagmen were awakened at 3 a.m. for emergency jokes; James Allardice wrote the droll TV monologues that made Alfred Hitchcock a household deity. But these scribes were as anonymous as the Roman speechwriter who whispered into the dying Caesar's ear, "Say, 'Et tu, Brute?'" So it's nice that Vilanch, a wide guy with a blond mop that makes him look like an obscene Senor Wences puppet, is now (as one of his 1,500 T shirts reads) ALMOST FAMOUS, camping...
...mummies. The section now being excavated, he believes, belonged to the middle class; eventually, tombs of wealthier people may turn up. And once this huge and pristine site is fully explored, Hawass and his colleagues expect to have an unprecedented window into Egyptian life in a provincial town under Roman rule...
...WHAT IT'S ABOUT] Historical novel about Roman Emperor's political advice to his heir...