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...city's best. There's no shortage of post-prandial entertainment. It's just five months old, but with its period furnishings the Tutto cocktail bar, tel: (41-43) 818 2391, is as good a simulacrum of the 1960s as you'll find. The chandeliers and red velvet at BASILICA, tel: (41-43) 366 9383, take revelers back to an even older era. More contemporary interiors are found at the Labor Bar, tel: (41-44) 272 4402, backdrop to local TV celebrity Kurt Aeschbacher's chat show, or at Hard One, tel: (41-44) 444 1000, a slick rooftop lounge...
...Cardinals it would be Ratzinger's duty to formally notify his brother Cardinals once the Pope had died. Ratzinger hurried into a black Mercedes and was driven from the office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, around the one-lane road behind St. Peter's Basilica, to the elevator that would bring him up to the Pope's private quarters. It was around noon when the Cardinal approached the Holy Father's bedside. John Paul's condition had deteriorated that morning. The same throat infection that had twice sent him to Gemelli hospital had begun to spread...
...Franco still lies in a grand tomb funded and carefully maintained by the country he subjugated. On Sunday, the 30th anniversary of his death, several thousand Franco supporters will make their annual journey to the Valley of the Fallen, some 50 km northwest of Madrid, where a colossal basilica is carved into the craggy Guadarrama Mountains. There, they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship - and perhaps finally put to rest the legacy...
...some, the delays raise suspicions that the Commission may balk at suggestions from the icv that Franco's body be moved to a private plot. If the Commission hasn't announced its recommendations by mid-November, the icv pledges to present a bill on the future of the basilica directly to Congress. "We're going to dampen the festivities at least," says Bosch. Whatever happens, Spain has already begun to dismantle the remnants of Franco's legacy. Mass graves of Republican sympathizers are now being excavated by volunteer organizations like Forum for Memory; just last month a related organization...
...sweets to good children and a lump of coal to naughty ones. Also during the holidays, all of Rome traipses from one church to another to view the ancient Nativity crèches. The oldest is believed to be the 13th century crèche of Arnolfo di Cambio, in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. For the truly devout, the marathon midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica is free, but reservations are required (they can be made...