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...K?ng ? The first answer may be as simple as the desire to catch up with an old friend and colleague: the two men had taught together at the University of T?bingen, and both had served as theological advisers during the Second Vatican Council. K?ng , 77, was quoted in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Tuesday as saying the Saturday dinner meeting at the papal summer residence in Castel Gondolfo was ?a reciprocal joy to see each other after so many years.? A Vatican statement said that the pair's standing doctrinal disputes were not broached. Among the topics reportedly...
...Rome-based cardinal. Instead, it appears that the new pope wants to establish an ongoing open dialogue with those who may have different views. The K?ng dinner is, in fact, Benedict's third potentially controversial encounter in the past month. In late August, the pope met with the Italian writer Oriana Fallaci, who has penned fiercely anti-Muslim books since 9/11, and then two days later he welcomed Bishop Bernard Fellay, the excommunicated head of an ultraconservative movement founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre...
...have managed to get people talking about the Internet because of something interesting rather than pedophiles and viruses." LUCA MORI, Italian computer programmer who found the remains of an ancient Roman villa near his home while looking at satellite images on Google Earth, a map website run by the popular search-engine company...
Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely...
...then, after nearly a decade in public accounting, Berman pursued graduate studies in Italian and Italian literature. Her literary work includes a translation of Citta del Sole, a major Italian text from the seventeenth century, according to the Harvard Gazette...