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...American fiction," Sabbath goes down to the beach near his childhood home, wrapped in an American Flag, and with the accumulated force of 400 pages, soliloquies, "The Atlantic is a powerful ocean. Death is a terrible thing...It was all remarkable. Goodbye, remarkable. Egypt and Greece, goodbye, and goodbye, Rome...
...Washington Thursday as reconstructed communist Massimo D'Alema made his maiden speech as prime minister. And that's not only because he's committed to a "caring capitalism" rather than any kind of socialism. "This government will pursue exactly the same economic policies as its predecessor," says TIME's Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're going to submit the same budget that brought down Romano Prodi, and this time it'll sail through...
Last week Benedicta McCarthy went to Rome to see her saint made. Back when she was two, the Brockton, Mass., child swallowed an overdose of Tylenol and suffered seizures. Doctors predicted death. But her family prayed to her eponym, a martyred Carmelite nun named Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; and a week later little Benedicta toddled out of the hospital, carrying a balloon and pushing the elevator button herself. Now 14, she is on her school swim team. The Roman Catholic Church saw her recovery as a miracle, and last Sunday, Teresa Benedicta (1891-1942) was scheduled to be canonized...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...
...down his government, but his successor will be forced to adopt the same policies to comply with European Monetary Union membership requirements. "The government was brought down by a single member of a 625-seat parliament switching sides, so whatever coalition replaces it will be as vulnerable" says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "Prodi's demise is a sign that Italy needs further electoral reform to stabilize its political system...