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DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
America is approaching something--a watershed--and when we get there it won't be pretty. Is it too far-fetched to speculate that what we are witnessing is our society unraveling itself? "Things fall apart," wrote Yeats. "The center cannot hold." Even the Roman Empire, after all, eventually fell...
...exhibition, called The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections, will open in April, 1996. It will focus on the role of technology in the history of classical sculpture, specifically, in the production of large Greek and Roman bronze statues...
...exhibition will consist of sixty objects from the archaic period to the Roman period and will examine the links between ancient styles and techniques, and the new research methods that scholars are using today to study the sculptures...
...tomb, in the western Oasis of Siwa. Her team also found carved oak leaves worn in the crowns of Macedonian kings and an engraved eight-pointed star -- Alexander's own symbol. But several Egyptian and U.S. experts tell TIME the tomb could be anything from a later Roman construction to a mere pointer to where Alexander is really buried, to a showcase for tablets that might have been transported from elsewhere. Doubts will remain until the tomb is excavated and its contents extensively tested, says TIME science reporter Lawrence Mondi, who notes that other historical evidence indicates that Alexander...