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...design follows Classical and Roman models and was influenced by the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896. It became the prototype for the design of college stadiums throughout the country...
...representative as some observers had hoped. The roll includes 17 Communist Party members but no top leaders of the outlawed trade union Solidarity; Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, 73, a lawyer who defended Solidarity members in several trials, is expected to serve as the group's representative. The Roman Catholic Church declined to nominate any delegates. Though exact details of the council's role were not announced, meetings must be convened by Jaruzelski, and published reports will reflect only the collective viewpoint, not any dissenting ones...
...nastiest newsman; Jack Wallace as a dumb, obsequious but likable cop; Deirdre O'Connell as the doomed hooker; and Jerome Dempsey as a chillingly venal mayor. Tony Walton's set deftly uses a 65-ft. depth on the Vivian Beaumont stage to convey a cavernous public building in Roman Preposterous style, and Willa Kim's costumes evoke the era without prettifying it. Yet what lingers is not the production's fidelity but its brilliant reconsideration...
Which Gospel was the first to be written, Matthew, Mark, Luke or John? That question is not only historically intriguing but important for interpreting the life of Jesus and the development of early Christian belief. Traditionally, biblical scholars, especially Roman Catholics, gave pride of place to Matthew, a view that prevailed until Victorian times. Then, in the 19th century, Protestant scholars rallied around Mark as the first Gospel writer, and most Catholics later followed suit. Today the predominant theory of how the Gospels were written holds that Mark served, along with a collection of Jesus' teachings, as a major source...
...clues that the government thinks the time is ripe for accommodation. At Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress last summer, Jaruzelski unveiled a plan for a national "consultative council" to advise the government on economic and social policy. The body is to include leaders of the country's powerful Roman Catholic Church and politically moderate intellectuals. Two weeks ago, Premier Zbigniew Messner took the unprecedented step of withdrawing a piece of economic legislation from parliament for revisions after it had been publicly criticized as a blatant attempt by bureaucrats to undermine proposed economic reforms that Jaruzelski had originally introduced...