Word: roberto
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...should interact with Islam. The Pope has refused to accept pre-emptive war as just, and a confidant recalls him shaking his fists and shouting "Basta!"--Enough!--back in the early days of the Iraq war. He may be trying to model a clash of civilizations without bloodshed. As Roberto Fontolan, the Vatican-savvy spokesman of the lay group Communion and Liberation, puts it, "Let's not talk about dogma. Or whether my God is better than your God. Let's talk about reason that we both have as a gift from God. What does it tell...
...French Concession" - the old colonial name for the Luwan and Xuhui districts - although the almost exclusively white, champagne-sipping crowd certainly had something of a colonial air about it. The celebrity quota included actresses Melissa George, Jennifer Jason Leigh, January Jones and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as ballet dancer Roberto Bolle and several generations of Ferragamo family members...
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...brother read off the sign we’d approached, articulating every syllable like our own little Roberto Benigni in the back seat. My dad’s brow had grown increasingly furrowed as his high hopes for finding Iacurso gradually plummeted—our quest seemed dead, having found its final resting place at this seemingly private cemetery just off the arid dirt road...
...greatest tragedies becomes a dispassionate statement of fact. The encyclopedia drains the entries of their terror and, indeed, of their very life, reducing them to little more than a hazy nightmare in our morning-after memory. But that doesn’t mean their terror is irrelevant: as Roberto Bolaño reminds us in “Nazi Literature in the Americas,” “real life can sometimes bear an unsettling resemblance to nightmares.”In this faux-encyclopedic account of 30 fictional far-right writers and poets, Bolaño the bibliophilic...