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Meanwhile, Brown retrieved Wyche five years ago to coach Cincinnati -- as it happens, the 49ers' opponent this Super Sunday in Miami. For the first time in many a Roman numeral, perhaps in the whole stolid history of the most consistently disappointing annual spectacle in America, a two-sided chess match is not only promised but guaranteed. The only question about Walsh and Wyche is which of them is wormier with ideas. Their imaginations are so active that the very canons of the sport are under strain. The National Football League is worried...
...through the chain link fencing and peer past the scaffolding and sandbags are rewarded with a wholly different, riveting view of the famous piazza: underground. There, some 30 Italian archaeologists are digging through a cross section of history from the Bronze Age to medieval times. Exposed now is a Roman thermal bath with its frigidarium, or cold room, almost intact. And smack on top of that are the remnants of a tower dating from the 13th century era of the Ghibellines. With 86,000 sq. ft. of past at his feet, archaeologist Giuliano De Marinis, director...
...work is done," said De Marinis with a sigh, "but from the public's point of view, covering up is the opposite of what's being done in the rest of Europe. The tendency is to leave it open to see." Already, a 5th century Christian church and a Roman fabric-dyeing plant are back under sand...
...walked away, thinking they had come across some urban renewal project. Francesco Nicosia, the feisty archaeological superintendent for Tuscany who battled for permission to dig up the piazza, hopes to mount a midyear show to explain the history unearthed: a medieval city of giant towers sitting atop an important Roman city dating from the 1st century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools and pottery fragments probably imported from Sardinia around 3000 B.C. Nicosia says the findings have forced experts to rethink old Florence: "We expected to discover the Roman and the medieval cities...
...secret that John Paul II is a man of strong -- and staunchly conservative -- convictions. Nor is it surprising that he has sought to fill the Roman Catholic hierarchy with clerics who insist on strict obedience to church teachings. In recent months, however, many of the faithful have been alarmed by the Pope's determination to override the sentiments of local clergy in order to get his way. Angry liberals in Vienna and Chur, Switzerland, have even resorted to blocking cathedral entrances to protest the consecration of new, archconservative bishops...