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...also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.) But what excuse can be made for Mint Balls ($3.99 for two), which will be introduced at the National Pet Products Trade Show in Atlanta this week? Fido thinks you're playing catch, but you're really mint-freshening his breath...
DIED. AGOSTINO CARDINAL CASAROLI, 83, a tailor's son who became the Vatican's unflappable envoy to Soviet bloc nations in the 1960s; in Rome. Upon his election as Pope, John Paul II quickly named the omnicompetent prelate the Vatican's chief diplomat, a post he filled with skill and judgment from 1979 to 1990. In 1989, in perhaps his most dramatic moment, Casaroli helped broker the meeting between the Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarters of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...
...sculptor for whom the aging Rockefeller posed thought that "if he'd lived in the Middle Ages, he'd have been Pope at Rome." It's a shrewd thought: the Standard Oil monopoly represented a centralized, hierarchical organization that was as intolerant of competitors as the Vatican was of heretics. Chernow proposes a shrewder thought: "At times, when he railed against cutthroat competition and the vagaries of the business cycle, Rockefeller sounded more like Karl Marx than our classical image of the capitalist." America is still trying to figure out where it stands concerning monopoly and competition...
Americans like their courts independent, but they're not as sure about international tribunals. As a month of negotiations gets under way in Rome today to create an International Court of Criminal Justice to prosecute human rights violations, the U.S. is pressing for U.N. Security Council veto power over the court. "Any U.S. administration that signs on to the court will have to confront Jesse Helms, who has made clear that unless the court is firmly under the control of a U.S. veto at the Security Council, it is 'dead on arrival,' " says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...