Roman Bar

Washington council votes to legalize gay marriage
AP Worldstream; 12/16/2009; 886 words; ...hearings at which some 250 witnesses testified. Opponents included the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington. The Archdiocese said it might have...similar measures on the ballot, citing a city human rights law that bars discrimination.

This time the Church must act over child abuse
The Independent - London; 12/15/2009; 2124 words; ...of children at the hands of Roman Catholic priests in Ireland...accountability she is demanding of the Roman Catholic Church was largely...head of the "reorganised" Roman Inquistion (renamed the Congregation...brought to justice and put behind bars if guilty . Nor is this just...

Uncertainty reigns after prince's death ; Flower grower convinced neighbors in the 1960s they weren't part of Italy
International Herald Tribune; 12/14/2009; 941 words; ...year 954, local counts ceded Seborga to Roman Catholic monks, and in 1079 Pope Gregory...of an imperial principality of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1729, the Savoy dynasty bought...medallions as he held court at the Bianca Azzura bar. He traveled in a flag-bedecked Mercedes...

Behind the gates of Tiger's secret estate; Desperate Golfwives and [pounds sterling]6m homes abound in the Orlando enclave owned by Joe Lewis.(Features)
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 12/13/2009; 1421 words; ...the local patois: a 'spool' is a spa and pool; a 'morning bar' is a master-bedroom kitchen for those too lazy to walk downstairs...in contrast to the billionaire's humble origins above the Roman Arms pub in Bow, East London, which was destroyed in the Blitz...

Outdoors: Poaching problem persists
Capital (Annapolis); 12/13/2009; 1298 words; ...limit, and dredging oysters out of season or on a sanctuary bar. Spend enough time around sport fishermen, commercial watermen...rooted in the Public Trust Doctrine, which dates back to the Romans, then passed onto the English in the form of the Magna Carta...