Word: juliuses
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...greater risks lie in not joining. In the long run, they reason, the emerging new Europe will forge ahead, leaving Switzerland behind with a declining and aging population, still prosperous and tranquil but stagnating outside the mainstream of history. "The train is leaving," says Hans Baer of Zurich's Julius Baer Banks...
...marble floor. The surface had been damaged by salt and grit tracked in by tourists wearing sneakers. And forget about stopping at Westminster Abbey, even on a Sunday morning, for a few quiet moments of prayer. "Now it's like Harrods three days before Christmas," says cultural historian John Julius Norwich. "Salisbury Cathedral is just as bad. The whole atmosphere is gone. You can't see anything, and people are talking in 20 different languages...
...grammar of basketball, passes are verbs. More than that, passing is a form of altruism, the unselfishness that transforms an agglomeration of individuals into a cohesive unit. Superb offensive players are rarely good passers. They appear narcissistic, locked inside their own talent. Elgin Baylor, Earl Monroe, Jerry West, Julius Erving often seemed alone on the court with the ball, solo artists in a team sport...
...EVIL that men do lives after them," said Mark Antony in Julius Caesar...
...SEASON OF GIANTS (TNT, Mar. 17, 18, 8 p.m. EST). The life and times of Michelangelo (British newcomer Mark Frankel) are the subject of this lush- looking, silly-sounding four-hour mini-series, which also gives us the skinny on the "eccentric" Leonardo (John Glover -- who else?), Pope Julius II (F. Murray Abraham), Raphael and Savonarola. In short, your basic Italian Renaissance docudrams...