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• Teacher makes sure his class won't make students 'vomiturus'
• All roads lead from Rome: Study of ancient history is not just popular, it has huge civic value. To scrap the A-level is lunacy
• Schools see resurrection of student interest in 'dead language'
• Students choose smaller majors
• Reviving a 'dead' language: The children are writing postcards about their favourite things - holidays, sport, food.
• Stuck in Vermont 19: Latin Day a YOUTUBE VIDEO!
• Watch out - assassins infiltrate campus
• Virgil Goes Viral
• Learning Latin – what’s the point?
• Brentwood’s students buck poverty trend (EXCELLENT on elementary Latin)
• Latin Lovers
  A language still needed as much in Birmingham as Sicily
• Foxtrot Cartoon featured Latin for the new year
• Poets can make dead words sing
  Providence School's Latin classes take a little license with old Roman language
• Why we are a new nation of Latin lovers
• Latin lovers are enjoying a boom
  We can no longer dismiss Latin as a dead language. It's in the middle of a real revival, says Will Griffiths
• Et tu, J.K. Rowling
• Magical thinking
  Anne Carson's poems might be wilfully obscure and difficult, but their compelling storytelling quality has earned her both critical and commercial success
• All hail the Roman citizenry at E.T.R.: Togas and sandals are de rigueur on this particular Monday at ET Richardson Middle School.
• Vatican's Latin expert no stuffy academic
• Gaudeamus igitur? - Hardly, says Vatican's Latin lover
• Latin: A Language Alive and Well
• High school students gather to experience Latin at UA
• MC proclaims 2005 Year of Languages
• Latin is alive and well at Utah schools
• Classics: Local readers relish a good debate over ancient Greek yarns
• Latin revival shows everything very old is new again
• Passion for Latin thrives in Rome
• Carpe NLTRW’: MC professor urges Latin students to ‘seize the week’
• A Classic Comeback
• Roman Rebound
• Ancient Roman coins still can buy broad educational goals
• What could learning Latin ever do for us? (VERY GOOD)
• Hooked on Classics
• Students learn Roman culture for certamen tournaments
• Latin Making a Comeback in High Schools
• Ancient Tongues on Tap at Cony
• Latin is alive and holding its own
• 'Dead' language is alive and well at Saratoga Springs High School
• Teacher makes language fun
• Alex Holmes--USC's Renaissance Man
• Schools reviving a dead language
  As schools focus on basics, lovers of Latin rising
• Students play racy Roman lives hoping nothing is lost in translation  (from Sydney, Australia)
• Mirabile dictu, amor Latin est nunc et semper
  'Dead' language enjoying resurgence in nation's schools
• The Latin Lover
• Greek to You: Is classical education dead?
• Classics on odyssey from stuffy to cool
• Teacher's Web site links students to ancient past
• Classic Chicago: A non-traditional approach to studying Greek, Roman antiquities
• Computer Program to teach Latin
• Pope Pushes for Wider use of Latin
• U.S. Study of "Dead" Latin is Making a Comeback
• Latin Lover
• Latin Makes a Comeback
• I think, therefore I do Latin
• The Latin lesson, or why moms always win
• Latin classes return
• Net helps resuscitate a "dead" language
• FROM TIME MAGAZINE
  The New Case for Latin: Some schools find that kids learn more about English by studying the language of ancient Rome
• Eager Students Keep Latin Alive
• When In Rome ... Or Not: Retired teacher still laughing in Latin 

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