Word: rome
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...concerned, anyway. America, in spite of being the world’s foremost superpower, should listen to the frank advice offered by its transatlantic allies. As one writer put it last year in The Spectator, a conservative British political magazine, Britain should play Greece to America’s Rome. While no longer in charge of an empire of their own, the Brits should continue to exert an influence on their former subjects, both civilizing the uncouth Americans and passing on a few words of imperial wisdom...
...takes us into the life of the city by way of Marcus Attilius Primus, a young, pure-hearted engineer who specializes in building and maintaining aqueducts. Aqueducts were a big deal in A.D. 79, both the backbone of and a metaphor for the glory that was ancient Rome. One night Pompeii's aqueduct starts belching sulphurous fumes, then dries up altogether. Attilius sets out to find the problem...
...almost always a mistake to give a novel more than one epigraph. Harris gives Pompeii three, two of which draw parallels between the supremacy of ancient Rome and the current hyperpower of the U.S. Does he intend us to read the devastation of Pompeii as somehow analogous to the attacks of 9/11? A divine check on the hubris of empire? The connection feels reckless at best. Sometimes a volcano is just a volcano. --By Lev Grossman
...this imperfect collage - Saturday, Nov. 8 through Friday, Nov. 14 - the stories share many qualities: young perpetrators, usually acting without organization, lashing out at people and sacred places. Their motivations vary, but through their action they share a desire to keep Europe's deepest wounds unhealed. 6 P.M., SATURDAY ROME A 22-year-old unemployed man put his BB gun in his pocket, hopped in his car and went looking for a Roma to shoot. Angry about being out of work, angry about the recent burglary of his apartment, he blamed it all on the Roma, 150,000 of whom...
...custody in Western Europe last week - three in Italy, seven in Britain, and one in Germany - as a top Italian antiterror official told time that terror groups "are trying to move closer to [striking in] European territory." Security agencies were on high alert; Italian officials even discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some of them were meant to thwart a different threat: the export of suicide bombers from Europe, mainly...