Word: rome
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...ranges freely and effortlessly through history, literature and philosophy, taking the reader in the course of a few pages from the Harlem of James Baldwin to the Rome of Sixtus V, from Edmund Spenser to Hannah Arendt to Mies van der Rohe...
...conflict would give rise to so much spiritual hand wringing. As TIME senior writer Otto Friedrich observed in his meditation on history, The End of the World, solemn predictions of earth's final days have accompanied natural and man-made catastrophes down through the ages, from the sack of Rome to the Nazi Holocaust. This century's military technology has given new power to those primordial fears and illusions, wrote Friedrich in his book. Thus the most chilling uncertainty of the gulf war is whether Saddam, in an act of cynical desperation, might launch a few surviving Scuds armed with...
...proclaimed himself a successor to Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King who enslaved the Israelites of old. That makes it deceptively easy for prophecy mongers to identify Iraq with Babylon. Somewhat awkwardly, it also undercuts a long- standing Protestant tradition that this symbol of corruption refers to the Church of Rome...
...proportionality issue has also sparked concern at the Vatican. La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit fortnightly in Rome that usually reflects Vatican thinking, has declared that the extent of damage wrought by both conventional and nuclear weaponry all but ends the prospect that any war could be deemed just. The Vatican's doctrinal overseer, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, took the same viewpoint in a radio interview after the bombing of Iraq began, but Pope John Paul II has not gone that...
Instead, we should insist on a U.S. foreign policy that supports Israel for Israel's sake--not because of a cost/benefit analysis, but because it's the right thing to do. Jews have been persecuted by Babylonia, by Persia, by ancient Greece, by ancient Rome, by the Ottoman Empire, by Nazi Germany and yes, by its Arab neighbors. The U.S. shut its doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. It has a duty to resist future attempts at the systematic annihilation of this perennially oppressed people...