Word: rome
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...large majority of terrorists who carried out operations--those who bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, American peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, Pan Am 103; those who hijacked TWA 847 and shot up the Rome and Vienna airports--have never been caught or punished. Countries long deemed the fountainheads of terrorism, like Iran, Syria and Sudan, have never felt the sting of U.S. retaliation. Even so, as the Administration dispatched its teams of investigators to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Berger vowed that the U.S. would succeed. Said he: "Our strongest weapon is our persistence...
...refuse to book any further), is so sincere. The problem is not an entirely new one. The earliest monasteries were founded in the 4th century in the Egyptian desert. As Christianity became legalized and then haute, the Desert Fathers and Mothers found themselves overrun by hipsters from Alexandria and Rome. Father Robert of New Camaldoli, where the spare rooms offer a heart-stopping view of the Pacific--for $30 a night--can relate. A hard call? "Sometimes," he sighs, "the first question is about the pool or the tennis courts...
...WHEN IN ROME... For some dos and don'ts to remember this travel season, we checked out our travel guides and checked in with protocol expert Mary Kay Metcalf at Creative Marketing Alliance in New Jersey. Our oy!tiquette tips...
...American Hereford Association headquarters, for instance, instead of Continental restaurants and similarly sophisticated cultural attractions. I liked the motto Kansas City had when I was a boy: "The Heart of America." The boosters liked the motto "More Boulevards Than Paris, More Fountains Than Rome...
...last winter I went to the Chamber of Commerce banquet and explained that I had been misunderstood. It all depended on how many fountains there were, I said. I didn't want to dismantle a fountain if we had only one more fountain than Rome. I didn't want to lose the edge. I didn't want to arrive in Rome some day and find a sign saying, "Piu fontane di Kansas City...