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Waite's religious work has not been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering...
...years, Syria has escaped Western reproach by carefully covering its terrorist tracks. Circumstantial evidence could be found of Syrian links to dozens of actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...
...Wilson and Glass will join forces again with a new opera based on the tales of the Arabian nights. Their last collaboration was the Rome section of Wilson's global epic, the CIVIL warS, which will be performed in December as the closing attraction of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, now in its fourth season. The academy, affectionately known as BAM, has become a national showcase for avant-garde work; its president, Harvey Lichtenstein, is the movement's Sol Hurok. When Lichtenstein courageously produced Wilson's The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud...
Last week provided a dramatic climax to this improbable real-life tale as Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, 77, now with the National Council of Scientific Research in Rome, and Stanley Cohen, 63, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, won the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The pair, who met in St. Louis in 1953 at Washington University, found the first of the body's many "growth factors": proteins that guide the development of immature cells. Said Nobel Committee Member Kerstin Hall: "Every single discovery in the field of cell growth factors has followed closely in the footsteps of Levi...
...Levi-Montalcini, the award assuaged memories of earlier frustrations. "Once Italy was not a country for research," she said in Rome. "Now, suddenly, things have changed, and this makes me immensely happy...