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...former employer, the Baltimore Sun. (He credits the newspaper for being "gracious" enough to let him use the name.) The idea, says Simon, is to ask, while continuing to lay out the problems that manifest themselves in bodies and police cases, "What were [the journalists] doing when Rome was burning? What were they paying attention...
...Elana C. Rome ’07 said her 10th-grade geometry class at Community Charter School of Cambridge gives her “such a high...
...Andronicus”?JF: I play Titus.RR: Great. What’s his story?JF: He is a Roman general who is reaching retirement, having successfully led Rome’s armies for forty years. He’s lost all his sons, pretty much. He comes back to Rome and finds that people want him to take up the emperorship, but he refuses. It’s kind of like “King Lear” in that he refuses and then everything goes bad from there.RR: Have you ever made a decision where you felt like...
...Then there are the differing thresholds. For one thing, Kennedy needed to lower the fears of Vatican control of American policy, so he could flatly state that he would not be taking orders from Rome and that his faith was a private matter. Romney at a minimum needs to do that - to say that even though Mormons believe that the head of their church is a prophet who receives God's living word, he would not be taking orders from Salt Lake City - but must do more. Kennedy could wall off his private beliefs from his public policy...
...great analytic skill." Indeed it may be the final nail in the coffin for Communist ideology that the head of the Catholic Church feels safe in giving Marx his props as a great thinker. Swiss-born Cardinal George Cottier, a prominent Vatican theologian, who presented the encyclical to the Rome press corps, smiled as one reporter asked about the kind words. "Yes, I was surprised by the Holy Father's almost praise for Marx," he said. "I said almost praise...