Word: rome
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...Mark Frutkin?s new Canadian novel Fabrizio's Return (Knopf Canada; 312 pages) Rome?s Sherlock is Michele Archenti, an advocate sent to Cremona, Italy, a village in the Lombardy plains. He's there to investigate the nomination of Fabrizio Cambiati, a priest and healer who lived in the 17th century, 76 years earlier. From the villagers, who would love nothing more than to have a hometown saint, Archenti hears fantastical tales of Cambiati's miracles: he floated among the clouds, cured the sick, revived the dead, made cathedrals appear out of thin air. It has grown...
...person who does not speak our language’) and “stutterer” (indicating ‘a person who does not speak our language our way’) converged in the hexametrical proclamation of the Visigoth Aleric as he stood outside the gates of Rome...
...conqueror stammered “teteroromamanunudadatetelalatete,” roughly translatable from the Latin as, “I’ll crush you Rome, with my bare hands! Hand over your spears. Hide...
...modern world has ever faced. Avian flu is already beginning to cause real economic pain. When infected wild birds were detected last week in European countries, poultry sales across the continent plummeted. But a handful of dead swans on the Danube and a bad quarter for chicken sellers in Rome isn't why we're spending billions to fight bird flu. We want to stop the big one. A report released last week by an Australian think tank reminded us just how big that might be. The Lowy Institute estimated that a worst-case pandemic, one even deadlier than...
...RESIGNED. ROBERTO CALDEROLI, 49, anti-immigration Italian Reforms Minister; after an incendiary TV news appearance in which he unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a T shirt displaying the controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad; in Rome. Calderoli's stunt ignited violent protests in Libya. At least 10 Libyans were reportedly killed in clashes with police...