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Tutela Impuberum Guardianship of Children inAncient Rome--by Richard Saller, professor ofhistory and classics, University of Chicago. SeverHall, Room...
...come right out and admit it. Among TIME's 26 bureaus around the world, some postings are considered more desirable than others, and Rome is right atop the list. Apart from the allure of the Eternal City itself, Cathy Booth's four years there featured a string of challenging assignments. She covered the papacy and the World Cup soccer matches, rushed to the Iraqi border to interview refugees when the gulf war broke out, and risked shellfire during a hydroplane foray into Lebanon. So at first, she admits, it "didn't exactly seem like a reward" when, 17 months...
Cathy came to us in 1985 from United Press International and reported in New York before moving to Rome. Perhaps the overseas experience did it, but what , she likes best about Miami is the exotic, not-quite-America feel of the place. Is this the South Florida portrayed in TIME's grim "Paradise Lost?" cover story of 1981? Booth reports that guns and drugs remain big local businesses but that "Miami is no longer the nation's murder capital, or even its money- laundering capital. Miami Beach is a symbol of change. These days they're shooting models ((with cameras...
...Sunday, when I go to a church with the proper type of shrine, I light a candle for certain relatives and kneel to say a prayer for them. A few years ago, when I went to Rome for a pilgrimage during Holy Week, I made a point of lighting candles for my grandfather. To release him from purgatory and bring him to sainthood, I prayed in all the basilicas, churches and shrines of the Eternal City...
Like these memories of Rome, my birthday always reminds me of death and sainthood. Jude, my older brother, was born and died 364 days before me, baptized by the same doctor who attended my birth." I am the eldest, but not the firstborn, "I say when I sometimes speak of him. I owe my life to his death, and his assurance of sainthood reproves me and urges me to meditation. He silently reminds me to live each days as if it were my last...