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...strengthening against other international currencies and leaders across the continent are already hailing it as a great success. Certainly, its introduction has significantly benefited tourists. With their trusty crisp blue bills travellers can now journey from Athens to Amsterdam without a thought about currency exchanges and can comfortably visit Rome without possessing an uncanny ability to divide...
...admitted to being a practicing Catholic while at St. Paul's School and during a year at St. Patrick's College in Karachi before he became an Anglican at age 20. Not that the Papist allegations bothered too many. Times have changed since Henry VIII severed ties with Rome in 1534. The Queen this month overturned five centuries of history by inviting Britain's Catholic leader, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, to preach at Sandringham's parish church on the royal estate, and Prime Minister Tony Blair often accompanies his Catholic wife Cherie to Mass...
Naturally, this had led to worries about merchants taking advantage of the confusion by sneaking in price hikes, or just rounding up their prices with the conversion. At Bar Pamphili in Rome, a single espresso costs 1,100 lire, the equivalent of 57 euro cents. Pay in euros and the same cup costs 60 cents. "We rounded all the prices, some up and some down," owner Giuseppe Scaramuzzo is quick to explain. "Anyway, today is just the first day. It's like an experiment." The early evidence is that most businesses have played fair, with a little cajoling from watchful...
...spent many years studying in Europe, including early education at the American School of Classical Study in Athens and two years at the American Academy in Rome. His years abroad instilled in Segal a love for the land and people of Greece and Italy and led him to develop close ties with many European colleagues, said his wife, Nancy Jones...
During Ramadan, the holy month of fasting that ended last week, Ahmid - a Moroccan-born imam at an Islamic cultural center in Rome - was selling Korans and cassettes of Muslim preachers at his stall outside the central mosque. A practicing Muslim back in Morocco, Ahmid has become more devout since arriving in Italy 13 years ago. "The immigrant turns to religion for support," he says. "Muslims have always gone anywhere in the world and adapted to learn to live as they must - and let others live their lives...