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...Cardinal Ratzinger had a role in stripping K?ng of the right to teach Catholic theology in 1979, because he had challenged the doctrine of papal infallibility. Just after the Cardinals chose the new Pope, K?ng showed a TIME reporter an old Ratzinger essay in his library that called on Rome to share power with local bishops. ?That was Ratzinger,? quipped K?ng . ?Back then we were on the same side.? In fact, until their dinner Saturday, the former colleagues hadn't seen each other in more than two decades...
Despite these and other worries, the principle of the cleaning and the care with which it is being done deserve support. You cannot preserve the monochrome Sistine that misled generations of visitors to Rome, including some of the best painters and art historians in the past 200 years, and still respect Michelangelo's intentions...
...would still be an inspiring story. The unseeded Blake, 25, who last year broke his neck after slamming his head into a the metal net post in Rome, lost his father, Thomas, to cancer, and contracted a stress-triggered virus that paralyzed his face, had made it to the fourth round of the U.S. Open, upsetting the second-ranked player in the world, Nadal, along...
...even ancient Rome had its shamuses. Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside to provide amusing lessons on the way crime, greed and cover-ups were endemic even in 70 B.C. In the 17th Falco novel, See Delphi and Die, the Eternal City's original tough guy takes on the tourist industry. (Rome invented that too.) Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted, but Falco's facetious tongue and domestic complications are the real...
DIED. TONINO DELLI COLLI, 81, prolific Italian cinematographer whose adaptive nature and masterly use of light allowed him to capture the moods of such noted directors as Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski; in Rome. Delli Colli gave a distinct look to every film he worked on--choosing supersaturated hues for Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and unadorned black and white for his collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini on The Gospel According to St. Matthew. He retired his camera after shooting Life Is Beautiful...