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Word: rome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bicycle-loving royal family are given free examinations for testicular cancer Spain: Dashing princes are required to wed dim, tanned-all-over Scandinavian models Italy: The royal family, exiled since 1946, are allowed to return to their thrones?provided they can spawn and install heirs as frequently as Rome produces Prime Ministers Thailand: No male may surgically transform himself into a female if it makes him taller than the sovereign, with or without platform heels Michael Jackson: With one, final, mandated nip-and-tuck, the King of Pop will finally be elevated to Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...Rather go Rome than gnome? One firm has modeled its puckish ornaments on Russell Crowe in his gladiator outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When In Gnome | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...they can speak freely, but at these sorts of events the cardinals tend to be somewhat on their guard. There were rumors today that someone in the meeting had called for a third Vatican Council, but that couldn't be confirmed. That's an issue that periodically resurfaces in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Talks Allow Would-be Pontiffs to Strut Their Stuff | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...GREECE The Pilgrim Pope Seeks Forgiveness Before he arrived in Greece Pope John Paul II was reviled by Greek Orthodox hard-liners as "the grotesque, two-horned monster of Rome." But protesters were disarmed by the frail Pontiff's entreaty for God's pardon of 1,000 years of Roman Catholic sins against the Orthodox Church. The Pope's six-day pilgrimage continued in Syria and Malta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...knows, you see it in John Kennedy's - Mother Rose off to mass every morning (if not off to Paris to buy clothes), and Papa Joe off to Gloria Swanson's bed in Hollywood. Bill Clinton's mother Virginia Kelley, though no saint in any sense that would impress Rome, had a saint's devotion to her boy, while his father died in an accident before Bill was born and his stepfather enacted the part of the muzzy, drunken male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Mothers (and Fathers) Make Presidents | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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