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...city hired Fiorentini, a Roman-born conservator, to restore the sixteen table tombs—gravestones that either lie horizontally on the ground or are supported by four legs—in Cambridge’s oldest cemetery. He brings an artistic sensibility and creative spirit to his work, which can sometimes be laborious or mechanical...
...Roman Polanski: “Knife in the Water” meets knife in the back as celebrated Polish director is arrested in Zurich on charges of raping a minor in ’78. Friends like Woody Allen and Martin Scorcese cry foul—but Woody’s own taste for young flesh makes his support a little suspect...
...Roman Polanski's recent attempts to have a decades-old statutory rape charge dropped somehow accelerate the extradition efforts that led to his arrest in Switzerland? Earlier this year, lawyers for the fugitive Oscar-winning director filed two separate documents with the California Second District Court of Appeal asking for the dismissal of all charges and alleging that the Los Angeles district attorney's office in effect benefited from Polanski's absence, because as long as he remained a fugitive, it could dodge answering allegations of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct during the case. Indeed, the lawyers alleged in the July...
Late in 2008, Polanski sought to have the charges dropped after an HBO documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, detailed claims of judicial and prosecutorial wrongdoing during the time of the director's original arrest. In the film, the then Los Angeles deputy district attorney, David Wells, says he met with Rittenband without the presence of defense counsel to argue for more jail time for Polanski. Wells was not himself an attorney on the case but he was a lawyer working for one of the parties, the state of California. The California Code of Judicial Ethics forbids judges to engage...
...legacy of these Roman rites lingered for centuries in Europe. Every Easter in medieval Venice - the seat of what was then a powerful Mediterranean empire - regiments of soldiers, dignitaries and the clergy would file past the city's famous Basilica de San Marco toward the docks to watch Venice's ruler, the Doge, board a vessel, sail into the harbor and drop a gold ring into the waters. This very public act symbolized Venice's divine marriage to the Adriatic Sea, the key to its Doge's wealth and power...