Word: rome
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...symbiotic arrangements that often develop between correspondents and foreign service officers. "They both must report on what is going on, and they invariably turn to each other for help," says Bonfante, whose last foreign assignment before joining the magazine's New York writing staff last year was as Rome bureau chief. "The more distant the outpost, the more intense the relationship...
...warned Italy's Roberto Ducci last month, retiring as Rome's Ambassador to London after 42 years in his country's foreign service. Indeed, seldom before in modern history has diplomacy been so dangerous, or so seemingly discredited, a calling. The clear and ugly danger is represented by terrorists who look on embassies and diplomatic missions as ripe, highly visible targets of opportunity, and their occupants as valuable hostages. At the same time, the traditional role of the diplomat, as an international negotiator, has been to some degree rendered obsolete in an age of Instant communications, when heads of state...
Glueck received the Isaac Ray Award of the American Psychiatric Association in 1961. He and his wife received the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology, the Gold Medal of the Institute of Criminal Anthropology and the University of Rome and the Beccaria Gold Medal of the German Society of Criminology...
...century B.C. Current opinion puts them much later, in the 2nd century A.D., and considers them Roman, not Greek. If so, the horse at the Met is roughly contemporary with the finest of all Roman equestrian bronzes, the statue of Marcus Aurelius on the Capitol in Rome...
...repented at the end. He converted on his deathbed to Catholicism. His father had died to maintain the Anglican Church, and his successor, his brother James, would lose his throne because of his Catholicism. Charles II, unlike his brother, had realized that his public reception into the Church of Rome would be disastrous for the monarchy, England being rabidly anti-Catholic. Charles has subordinated his own religious convictions to the good of the state, until it was too late for anyone to care. Fraser's description of his deathbed conversion is the most moving chapter in the book. She abandons...