Word: romanos
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...Romano and Fiddy are, however, in good company when it comes to Harvard students, who seem to have a special fondness for naming websites after themselves. Four such undergrads—all male, but probably only by coincidence—joined FM for an enlightening roundtable discussion over the weekend...
...think of life without war - no Vietnam, cnn or Fahrenheit 9/11 - a life where the only news comes filtered through the occasional visitor or the Vatican weekly newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "When was the year the Pope was shot?" asks Sister Veronica, who was two years into monastic life when Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca made his 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. "Mass was just going to start, and Mother came in and said, 'The Pope's been shot.' We didn't know any details, but you can imagine how we prayed for him and the shock...
...calling that you actually hear in the depths of your being." If Sister Veronica's call had not sounded in 1979, when she was 25, her razor-sharp curiosity might have carried her into a career in journalism. Or perhaps as a spruiker for L'Osservatore Romano. "Are you familiar with that?" she asks. "Oh, it's a great mag. The Holy Father's just put out an encyclical on the Eucharist...
...politicians rush in to take the credit. Now, with the expansion of the E.U. making consensus even harder to achieve, the job is becoming more thankless than ever. That was spectacularly clear at the June 17 summit, when the Union's leaders failed to agree on the successor to Romano Prodi, whose term ends in October. As Time went to press, the national leaders appeared close to agreement on a compromise candidate, the mild-mannered Portuguese Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, 48. Barroso's support for the war in Iraq meant he had to overcome the reservations...
...Fianna Fáil tumbled to its worst showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties left and right gained; those in PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government instantly demanded more power Berlusconi's Forza Italia slipped, but rival Romano Prodi's center-left coalition disappointed, too Netherlands Antiwar, pro-reform voters boosted the opposition left and whistle-blower Paul van Buitenen's Transparent Europe bloc PM Jan-Peter Balkenende's center-right coalition suffered for supporting the Iraq war, losing five seats Poland Low turnout handed victory to right-wingers...