Word: rome
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...long-anticipated announcement comes on the heels of the elaborate 45th anniversary celebration in Rome last July where Valentino and his longtime business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, entertained the likes of Uma Thurman, Silvio Berlusconi and Princess Caroline of Monaco throughout a three-day spectacle that included a dinner held on the ancient foundations of the Temple of Venus and a ball for 1000 guests in a 17,000 sq. ft. tent erected especially for the festivities in the Villa Borghese Gardens. The celebration, which Valentino Wednesday called "a moment of infinite magic and tremendous joy," was rumored to cost upwards...
...reminder of how every step Alitalia takes comes loaded with political implications, the plan is also expected to reinstate Rome's Fiumicino airport as the airline's primary transatlantic hub, pulling flights from Milan's Malpensa airport. A decade ago, the construction of the airport 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Milan was seen as a great victory for powerful northern politicians. Now both the Milanese mayor Letizia Moratti and the governor of the Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni - both rising stars of the center-right, which is the opposition in the capital - have vowed to fight the plan. Alitalia officials...
...notable success: the rise of regulated athletic competition to take the place of blood sport as mass entertainment. In Rome at the height of its imperial glory, gladiators by the thousands fought to the death before cheering crowds. They hacked one another with swords; they were torn to pieces by wild animals. Most of them perished in near anonymity, but some became idols and sex symbols--men such as Celadus the Thracian, immortalized as "the young girls' heartthrob," and Crescens, "the netter of young girls by night...
...ROME Still a contemporary favorite, these Persol frames ($173) are part of the brand's original collection...
...events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by lively anecdotes - of catamarans plying Polynesian seas, of Catholic converts in Mexico bearing icons made in Macau of missionaries martyred in Japan, and of the armless boy in an Indian trade delegation who awed imperial Rome by shooting arrows with his toes...