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...Rome is just 30 km from the Mediterranean, but if you believed most guidebooks, you'd think it was 300 - it's hard to find a tip for a great seafood restaurant in the Italian capital. But a Roman friend told me about Il Tempio di Iside shortly after it opened in 1999 near the Coliseum, and it has become a can't-miss stop on my dining itinerary with visiting friends and family. After a taste of complimentary Prosecco, Italy's gently sparkling white wine, Tempio's affable owner Francesco Tripodi arrives at the table to list the evening...
...sight of 13 coffins in a row - each draped in the blue-and-white Somali flag - was enough to chill even Italians jaded by the grim regularity of would-be immigrants dying. On Friday, Italian leaders and ordinary citizens alike turned out for a special memorial service in Rome, capping a week of anguish after 13 still-unidentified Somalis were found dead from exposure in the hull of a fishing boat off the coast of Lampedusa, a small island south of Sicily. Accounts from survivors indicated that as many as 60 other Somalis had died on the journey, which began...
Luckily, we both took that Historical Studies class “Aqueducts and Acne: Coming of Age in Ancient Rome.” Also, we were in the Time Travel Club (meets Wednesday nights in the Leverett...
...down the tradition of "collegiality" among the Bishops - which naturally presupposed and even encouraged a diversity of views - and made clear that he was less interested in hearing from them than in overseeing their enforcement of Church (and papal) doctrine. The world's Catholic bishops are traditionally called to Rome for consultations every five years, and while those sessions had, certainly since Vatican II, involved a measure of give-and-take, under John Paul II they were more concerned with disseminating a line and quizzing the bishops on instances in which they may have been deemed insufficiently aggressive in defending...
...travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name boutiques in the shop listings, and the reviews of the usual destinations?Paris, Rome, Madrid?are joined by shorter takes on more unusual ones like Malm? ("an unpretentious haven") and Krakow ("filled with joie de vivre...