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...vehemently opposes. While the Pope recuperates, many of his duties fall to some of his most trusted advisers. Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano, 77, is the man with the most administrative muscle. A veteran diplomat, Sodano is like a papal Prime Minister, responsible for the governance of the Roman Curia, headquarters of the Vatican bureaucracy. Sodano is also charged with covering for the Pope during temporary absences, such as the last week's hospitalization, and was slated to stand in for John Paul at this week's meeting in Rome with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Virtually every...
...cover for something much worse. Sources at the Vatican discount that scenario, noting both the Pope's relatively robust appearance Sunday and the fact that the basic details about his condition were being released at regular intervals. Navarro-Valls and others who manage the flow of information in the Roman Curia would have nothing to gain from telling the world's one billion Catholics not to worry if they knew that tomorrow would bring bad news. Still, one well-placed Vatican official told TIME that the situation Tuesday night was most likely more grave than the official word that...
...headache. It's not just about getting the minimum number of votes needed to win; it's about getting broad support for the future." That support may not be so easy to come by. Though parliament is expected to confirm her nomination this week, Tymoshenko remains a divisive figure. Roman Bezsmertny, another M.P. for Our Ukraine, which is allied with Tymoshenko's party, called on fellow deputies to vote against her because he believes she'll foster disunity - despite the fact that it was her forceful rhetoric that helped keep demonstrators' spirits high during the street protests that brought Yushchenko...
...simple as a shark's: one night, one setting; bad guys outside, good and bad guys in; last one not to get blown up wins. It's your basic claustrophobic nightmare, which theater and cinema have astutely exploited--from Sartre's No Exit and nearly any Pinter play or Roman Polanski movie to the old cliff-hanger serials, where the four walls of a cell would close in on our hero. Anyone under pressure has felt this contraction: the frazzled mind cowering, shrinking, as reality ruthlessly applies the clamps...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...