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After receiving his A.B. degree from Harvard, Keppel studied sculpture for a year at the American Academy in Rome. He resumed academic studies while serving as an assistant dean at Harvard College from...
...guying the manners and affectations of the French. But he was unusually well traveled. In a day when tourism was an arduous and expensive business, confined mainly to the rich, he made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder for the Louvre. What he saw comes out in his work, in an unpretentious and conversational way, in the poses...
Egypt has its pyramids, Rome its Colosseum. Iran has its attractions too, notably its Persian ruins, but few tourists have seen them in recent years because of turmoil within the country. Now, hungry for foreign currency to help rebuild its war-ravaged economy, Iran aims to develop a tourism industry. This year the country hopes to welcome 300,000 visitors who will bring in more than $200 million...
...filing 13 documents, the prospective convert must take additional theology instruction and endure detailed inquiries into his psychological makeup and the health of his marriage. One requirement, controversial to Episcopalians, ; is that each clergyman convert must undergo ordination at the hands of a Catholic bishop, an unwanted reminder that Rome rejects the validity of Episcopal priestly orders...
...Laboa: "He talked very little, nodded a lot. He is impenetrable." Some diplomatic observers thought Noriega was showing classic signs of drug withdrawal. But a pharmacist who examined him in the nunciature concluded that he was not an addict. "Poor Noriega," said a diplomat posted to the Vatican in Rome. "No drugs, no booze, no sex -- and eating Vatican food...