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...bulk of the tombs in Bahariya represent one of two periods: the 26th dynasty (6th century B.C.), when the town first became an important trading and agricultural center; and the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D., by which time Egypt was ruled by Rome. The Zed-Khonsu-efankh site, which Hawass opened last April, hails from the earlier era and took even him by surprise...
...book out this fall, Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education (Henry Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality...
...reconcile his growing desire for concrete figuration with his already accomplished style of abstract expressionism. As a respected contemporary of such American masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, he had won numerous awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Ford Foundation grant and the prestigious Prix de Rome. Still, something was missing; abstraction was increasingly alien and even boring to him. On his gray canvases of the 1960s, amorphous black head-shapes began to appear, laboring to push, as it were, out of the ether behind them. Then, in 1970, he unveiled a complete change. Inspired by the banal...
...There's a myth in this country that third parties can't make it," Nader said at Harvard. "Well, Rome wasn't built...
Thank you for portraying our boss, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as the dignified global statesman that he is [WORLD, Sept. 4]. I and many of my colleagues had the honor to witness his unique qualities firsthand last April when he addressed the World Food Program headquarters staff in Rome. It is inspiring to know that such a compassionate and talented individual heads the U.N. family of nations. JUDITH ANNE THIMKE World Food Program Managua...