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...this big it’s much harder so I’m worried about it.“ Alongside Gov 20, recently-approved general education offerings were also well-received this fall. Culture and Belief 17: “Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games” attracted 171 students, and 116 undergraduates have enrolled in Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 15: “Elements of Rhetoric.” “It’s a little above what we estimated, but it’s certainly within the range...
Japan's ruling party is betting on a little attitude going a long way. On Sept. 22, the Liberal Democratic Party gave itself a personality injection by electing Taro Aso, a Roman Catholic, "manga"-loving conservative with a wry smile and a sharp tongue, as its new president. The LDP must now wait to see if Aso's ascendance will be enough for the party to regain the five-decade legislative stranglehold it lost last year in the Diet...
...step was light. Surely the Viscount and Viscountess would not mind. Look how the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore caught the mid-morning sunshine. Look at those clouds bounding through the blue. Oh, how she loved Florence!As she left the city, passing through its old Roman gate, Roxanna mused again over the improbability of her happiness. To think that Viscount Frederick, always so devoted to his ancestral manse, would suddenly bow to his wife’s request that they go to Italy now, immediately, at once. The couple had brought along only Roxanna, Viscountess Felicity?...
...choice of Palin as a vice-presidential running mate must be the worst political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul. Christopher K. Sumner, London...
...experiential churches, like many African-American denominations and those in the Pentecostal movement, that lay heavy emphasis on the workings of the Holy Spirit, where the supernatural, through gifts like healing, prophesying and speaking in tongues, makes regular visits in the pews. In the middle are sacramental faiths like Roman Catholicism, where the supernatural has a regular place on the altar (after all, the Eucharist is said to be the literal body and blood of Christ) but one that occurs only within the restrictions of very specific ritual...