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...Beacon Hill Nursery School nearly 50 years ago. She also founded a reading group with two other women, modeled on a Harvard tutorial. Over the past 45 years, the group has covered American, Russian, French, Spanish and German Literature, as well as the English novel, ancient Greece and Rome, and, most recently, South American history and literature...
...killed in 1992. They haven't followed in their father's footsteps. Each son has attended university, and the family insists that they just want to be left alone to run their dry-cleaning business. "The Mafia adapts, it can even change its core business," says Giovanni Colussi, a Rome-based organized crime expert. "But it always remains the Mafia. It can't become another thing." Same plot, new characters, still no happy ending...
...warheads to a maximum of 2,200. Then the Russian President will give his American buddy a tour of St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, reciprocating the hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November. The following week they will be together again, this time in Rome, where they are expected to sign an agreement giving Russia a kind of junior partnership in NATO, the cold war military alliance created to confront the Soviet threat. Rice, who shares her boss's newfound optimism about Russia and its leader, fairly gushes when she describes the transformation. "To see the kind...
...Apostolic Palace and the four main entrances to the Vatican, an around-the-clock job that requires skills as diverse as fluency in Italian and proficiency in martial arts. Swiss Guards have been the beneficiaries of papal blessings and colorful garb since 1506, when 150 Swiss soldiers arrived in Rome to guard Pope Julius II. But such perks may no longer be enough to entice young Swiss Catholics to serve in the Papal army. Although 28 recruits joined in May, the 110-member force is still 17 men short. "Recruitment can be difficult, and we are intensifying our efforts," says...
...others combined. A few months back, Bush asked Congress for a $48 billion increase in U.S. defense spending. The add-on is more than twice as much as the entire defense budget of Germany, not exactly a dwarf among the nations. With the possible exception of Rome, no country has ever commanded such a vast lead over all the others. Nor is that power counterbalanced any longer by a worthy rival such as the Soviet Union. The U.S. is like an XXL-size Gulliver, and even his friends worry about him. The Europeans worry even more when Defense Secretary Donald...