Word: rome
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...some scholars speculate that Jesus, a carpenter by trade, might have found work there. If so, he may have been exposed to a wider range of cultures and ideas than his origins in rustic Nazareth would suggest. Did he, for example, learn to speak Greek, the common language of Rome's empire, as well as Aramaic and Hebrew...
Dooley has been at Harvard for the past five years, spending the last year abroad in Rome in the American Academy...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...
...Bosnia but now hold about 50%. Last week, however, the Bosnian Serbs were suddenly counterattacking with some success. "The Serbian offensive this week was a major factor in making the cease-fire possible," Holbrooke said in an interview with TIME. As he spoke in his hotel room in Rome, he kept one eye on CNN and was repeatedly interrupted by calls from Washington. "It became clear to the parties concerned that there was something of a military equilibrium on the ground...
Bonfante's travels--besides Rome, he has covered Greece, Turkey and the Middle East and has served as Time's Paris bureau chief--give him a global perspective on the Pontiff's role. "We in the U.S. are so intent on 'political' questions we sometimes forget that the Pope has a worldwide church to worry about," he says. For this week's piece, Bonfante brought the international perspective home by traveling to predominantly Mexican-American East Los Angeles to visit the Iglesia de la Resurreccion (Church of the Resurrection), where Mass is accompanied by an eight-piece mariachi band, complete...