Word: rome
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Among the patrician grande dames, the Breakers is regarded as royalty. Its facade is patterned after Rome's Villa Medici. The interior is a riot of tapestries, Renaissance paintings, marble and lush gardens. Until recently, guests who returned year after year to enjoy the grandeur were mostly older. "This was not a resort that was historically family friendly," admits Paul Leone, president of Flagler System, the private, family-run company that has always owned the Breakers. "Back in the '20s, for example, the scene was very formal--the men in black tie." In the mid-'90s, management reached...
...Americans first, Americans last, Americans always," he said. "From that firm foundation you can march on. Abandon it and chaos will come as when the civilization of Rome crashed down in irremediable ruin...
...base," he says. On June 6th, Arab mobs rose throughout the Middle East, and in Tripoli they began knifing Americans in the streets. All non-essential personnel were required to evacuate. "On the seventh of June, my family got on a plane and boarded for Rome. My happiest moment was seeing them on this plane...
...later images cast light on how Cleopatra's reputation was sullied in Rome after Octavian (later to become the emperor Augustus) defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. A marble relief, part of a frieze replete with symbols of Egypt and the Mediterranean, depicts a couple engaging in sexual intercourse aboard a boat. And a terracotta oil lamp shows a female figure, amid a Nile-like landscape, squatting on a phallus atop a crocodile. To the poet Lucan, she was a "wanton daughter" of Macedonian kings...
...there is a tendency to say that while a pope should not be too old, he shouldn't be too young either. After all, if he's 60, he's going to be around for another 20 years. But it's funny to watch from Rome, because this all happens behind closed doors, so nobody really knows. Frontrunners come...