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...giants from exotic corners of the world, and few have made the grade. A small number, like Lithuania's 7-ft. 3-in. Arvydas Sabonis, have made effective use of their height; most, like reedy 7-ft. 7-in. Sudanese Manute Bol and wobbly 7-ft. 7-in. Romanian Gheorghe Muresan, have stuck out like Giacometti statues in a gladiator ring. "Unlike Bol and Muresan," says Memphis Grizzlies coach Hubie Brown, "this guy is strong. And he's got great touch...
...expect a certain tense solemnity when an Academy Award--winning director is shooting a film on the life and death of Jesus Christ. On the sound stage of The Passion in Rome's Cinecitta studio, the famed auteur prepares a scene for Maia Morgenstern, the Romanian actress playing the Virgin Mary. She is to enter the abandoned temple where her son has just been removed in chains on his way to Calvary. The director needs an enshrouding silence, so he shouts down some workmen's chatter. Then he coaxes the actress into a long, slow walk that hits the perfect...
...Omen To keep soccer hooligans from storming the pitch, Romanian club Steaua Nicolae Balcescu has proposed a plan to surround its home field with a heated moat filled with crocodiles
...clearly found a loving home that has allowed her to blossom. Casa Austria, set up in the fall of 2000 by the Austrian humanitarian organization Concordia, is a radical departure from Romania's notorious system of institutional care. Until about a decade ago, tens of thousands of Romanian children lived in large dormitory-style buildings, where they were starved of food, medical care and affection. Those grim places are slowly dying out, supplanted by group-home alternatives such as Casa Austria. It is a brightly painted two-story structure for just 30 kids - a maximum of four to a room...
...joining the E.U. than against it. In most, a large apathetic minority has no opinion. But the Speak-Up-for-Small-Nations Democracy Tour and Skaradki's ambivalent farmers are only two examples of disenchantment among those very people who not so long ago were clamoring to get in. Romanian President Ion Iliescu may be right when he says that "nowhere does the word Europe vibrate more strongly and with more emotion than in the countries of the east," but the vibrations are becoming dissonant. Polls show that the nations most enthusiastic about the E.U. are farthest from admission (support...