Word: rome
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...there have been at least 35 op-eds written in recent weeks comparing the United States to the Roman Empire. In case you were wondering, not in a good way. Then, it goes without saying, there is an entire book devoted to the question. “Are We Rome?” Cullen Murphy asks. In the tradition of excellent scholarship, after much thought and historical insight and copious amounts of notes, his answer is: maybe. Well, don’t let that title scare you. Anyway, declinism is in and optimism is out; haven?...
...hues in “Gods in Color,” one of the latest exhibits to fill the rooms of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, running from Sept. 22, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2008. The presupposed norm of white marble sculptures representing the purity of ancient Greece and Rome is washed away by the brilliant, bold, and rich colors that are now bestowed on replicas of these sculptures. EVERYDAY PEOPLE Obviously, color is pivotal in experiencing this collection, making “Gods in Color” a refreshing and thought-provoking look at Greek and Roman sculpture...
...This last March, member states invested heavily on marketing campaigns to remind citizens about the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the genesis of the present Union. To the horror of Euro-skeptics around the world, the Union—which started in Rome with six countries in an economic alliance—has since grown relentlessly, adapting and surviving more than one failed referendum. In fact, the French and Dutch in 2005 were not the first to reject the EU; the Norwegians, for example, repeatedly voted against joining. The main problem with the 2005 vote was that many...
...Vatican quickly fired back this week. John Paul's longtime doctor Renato Buzzonetti, who now monitors Pope Benedict XVI, said that doctors and John Paul himself all acted to stave off death. "His treatment was never interrupted," Buzzonetti told the Rome daily La Repubblica. "Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken." He added that a permanent nasal feeding tube was inserted three days before the Pope's death when he could no longer sufficiently ingest food or liquids. Buzzonetti did not specifically respond to Pavanelli's claim that John Paul needed a tube weeks, not days, before he eventually died...
...city, with migrant workers from tiny villages in every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs the boom has created. Then there are those from even farther afield--venture capitalists from San Francisco, artists from Brussels, chefs from Rome, legions of gimlet-eyed businessmen from Taipei, Berlin and Tel Aviv--all drawn to make fortune or fame or maybe just to say "I was there the year that Beijing welcomed the world...