Word: roman
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...audacious to hope that the recent earthquake - and the Olympic Games - might convince the Chinese to abandon their ancient, inefficient writing system - the real Great Wall of China - and adapt the Roman alphabet? Alex Farkas, SUNNYVALE, CALIF...
...fitting that the Champions' League final was held in Moscow, because Chelsea is owned by a Russian billionaire, Roman Abramovich, who made his money investing in denationalized Russian industries. Since he bought the team in 2003, Abramovich has sunk over $1.1 billion into it, and bagged five trophies. That makes each bit of silver pretty expensive, but for a man whose personal fortune is estimated to be as high as $23 billion, the glory appears to be worth the price...
...audacious to hope that the recent earthquake disaster, together with the upcoming Olympic Games, might nudge the Chinese towards abandoning their ancient, inefficient writing system - the real Great Wall of China - and adapt the Roman alphabet? Alex Farkas, Sunnyvale, California...
...Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired HBO; June 9; 9 p.m. E.T. The 1977 conviction of director Polanski (Chinatown, The Pianist) for sex with a minor was the very model of modern media circuses. Marina Zenovich uses archival and new interviews to show how the court and press made an example of the (admittedly guilty) filmmaker. A thoughtful look at celebrity, justice and the incompatibility...
...There hasn’t really been anyone specializing in scientific thought in Ancient Greece and the Greco-Roman world so far [at Harvard],” he said. “If there’s any room for growth in the classics, a pretty traditional field, it’s in disciplines on the edges...