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...FIRST MAN IN ROME, by Colleen McCullough (Morrow; 896 pages; $22.95), is a truly astonishing work, the first of five planned volumes about life -- mostly political life -- in ancient Rome. Robert Graves covered this ground, in I, Claudius, and so did Shakespeare, for that matter. McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, is not awed, and her narration marches sturdily through a period of fascinating turmoil in the last years of the Republic. Terrifying German barbarians have wiped out most of Rome's legions. The Senate dithers; Gaius Marius, a wealthy military man of low birth, has the energy...
...recent years, the Review has been a thorn in the side of Dartmouth's administration. In addition to churning out vitriolic prose, editors from the paper took sledge hammers to anti-apartheid protestors' shanty towns and have been accused of harassing William Cole, a Black faculty member...
...have to improve on our serving," Lem added. "It's been a thorn in our side for seven matches--until it's taken care of, everything else is secondary...
Affordable housing is one of Cambridge's perennial unsolved problems, a thorn that presses deeper into the City Council's side with each reminder of the 4000-plus families now waiting for an answer from the city's Housing Authority...
...transition zone of thorn scrub from Madagascar and Mexico leads onto a Baja California desert biome. The stream, meanwhile, meanders to the saltwater marsh (transported in sections from the Florida Everglades) that gives onto the 10.6-meter-deep (35-ft.) ocean with its own coral reef and waves that can rise as high as 1.2 meters (4 ft.). Mangroves in the marsh are host to frogs, turtles and crabs, and the ocean includes 1,000 species of plants and animals...