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...tour of ancient Rome and neighborhoods ranging from Testaccio, featuring some of the capital's hottest restaurants, to the wealthy oleander-treelined neighborhood of Parioli near the Villa Borghese Park, and the San Lorenzo quarter, where the streets hum with university student life. You'll cross the Tiber by the Sublicio Bridge. Before reaching the final stop near the National Gallery of Modern Art, the bus passes such landmarks as the Colosseum, the ancient church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, and the 1st century pyramid built as a tomb by a magistrate with dreams of grandeur. Cost: $1.20, expires after...
...then it was over, and people mingled and smiled, and by late afternoon the young pilgrims had turned the Via della Conciliazione that leads away from St. Peter's into a lively promenade. They broke out coolers of soft drinks. They packed the cafés, strolled down to the Tiber River as the spring light faded. Grief had turned festive with the echo of what the Pope on his deathbed is said to have told his personal secretary: "I am happy," he said. "You be happy...
...Dalai Lama, Tiber's exiled religious and political leader, said in his interview with TIME [Oct. 25], "If you look at the Tibet situation locally, then it's hopeless. But from a wider perspective, it's hopeful." To me, it looks as if the struggle for Tibetan independence from China will further diminish after the Dalai Lama's death. Exile and inaction never yield positive results. While it is true that peaceful methods of promoting the cause of Tibetan freedom should be adopted, what has the Dalai Lama done to direct these efforts? In today's world, substituting philosophy...
...Rome has the Tiber, Paris has the Seine, and they don’t build high-rises, so why should we allow them on the Charles?” Reeves said...
It’s no small wonder that so many people want to study abroad, and that everyone who does so seems to love it. Who wouldn’t want to coast through easy classes while doing little work and enjoying sunsets on the Rhine, the Rhone, the Tiber or the Yangtze, rather than grinding out tough problem sets on the bank of the pedestrian Charles...