Word: rome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Certainly with people like Gates, Anthony Appiah and Cornel West, the department has superb potential," Awkward said. "But Rome wasn't built in a day. We'll have to see what develops...
...RODMAN? He plays a Martian on 3rd Rock from the Sun! He does a risque lingerie commercial with a supermodel! He announces on TV that he's getting married, mystifying everyone including his stripper girlfriend! He shows up at a book signing in a wedding dress! He goes to Rome to make a movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme! All just a regular week or two at the office for the publicity terrier. Over at the Rodman Group (his manager has an 800 number, natch) they're unapologetic. "This is a small representation of things coming his way," says...
...ROME: A former Nazi officer who confessed to killing two people and taking part in the World War II massacre of 335 civilians near Rome was arrested again just hours after being acquitted by an Italian court on Thursday. Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, is now back in jail waiting for extradition to Germany. After the Italian court pronounced sentence on Priebke, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired and that he could not be found guilty of some charges because he was following orders at the time, a horde of outraged protestors burst into the court...
...played the role of pied piper to an unrestrained cheering mob whose behavior must have made the hapless nonwinners feel like the vanquished gladiators in ancient Rome--thumbs down, and bring in the lions! ROSE WONG MACMICHAEL Bradenton, Florida...
...side of the brain that reads and remembers thinks back a bit, to the '70s, say, and recalls not only Munich but also a procession of equally bloody terrorist horrors--airliners hijacked to the desert or to Entebbe, airports blown apart by bombs in Tel Aviv and Rome, the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof gang and all their telegenic stunts. These spectacles occurred outside the U.S., of course. On the other hand, in April 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, it looked as if every city in America was on fire. So much for immunities...