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Directed by Roman Polanski...
...municipal hooliganism that was typical for its time, the market stalls were torn down by the city and replaced by a parking lot. A few years ago, plans were moving ahead to replace the lot with an underground garage when workers excavating the site discovered a cluster of Roman ruins. This time a wiser city government made two important decisions. First, it chose to preserve the ruins within a below-ground museum. Second, it opted to hold an international competition for an overhead structure to connect the museum to the surface and to transform the plaza from a parking...
...others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive material—and many want such an exposure. According to the CUE Guide, of the 143 students who enrolled in History 10a last year, 93 of them chose...
Brioni, headquartered on the Via Ges in the heart of Milan's shopping district, was founded in Rome in 1945 by tailor Nazareno Fonticoli and his entrepreneurial Roman partner, Gaetano Savini. Fonticoli had been trained in the Abruzzo school of tailoring, which blends cutting and stitching techniques borrowed from Savile Row with softer, Mediterranean-inspired lines. The pair's Sartoria Brioni on the Via Barberini was named after the Croatian islands of Brijuni, a glamorous golf and polo getaway favored by Italian aristocrats in the 1920s...
...they’re the only ones allowed to join—it just so happens that they’re the only ones who seem to want to. Brewer points out that the CSA has “a total non-discrimination policy,” but Roman Catholic doctrine limits full participation in its church services to baptized Catholics. There are only a handful of Catholics in HRCF— hardly anyone double-bills with the CSA. Mostly, the groups stay separate, and considering how similar they are in terms of purpose and rhetoric, they?...