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...everywhere the 7,000-ft. mountains and the apple and peach and apricot orchards give a bell-like vigor to the air. Nagano is actually on almost the same latitude as Rome and San Francisco--the southernmost city ever to be host of a Winter Games--but its nearby mountains are famous for their clear, rushing streams and sharp blue skies. "This is the most beautiful place in Japan," says an American professor at a local university. "I'll be happy if I never see Tokyo in my life again...
Russian officials were delighted that President Boris Yeltsin got through last week's visit to Rome without any of the major gaffes that have become commonplace on his overseas sorties. His hosts were less impressed. Once known for his grasp of complex briefs in high-level negotiations, Yeltsin seemed confused during his meetings, officials said, and reportedly had difficulty telling Italy's Prime Minister, ROMANO PRODI, from the country's President, OSCAR LUIGI SCALFARO. Though he seemed just a little stiff during his very limited public appearances, officials say that in private he walked with difficulty and seemed in danger...
Italians are fuming over the U.S. warplane that caused the death of 20 people in a cable car accident Thursday -- without the pilot even knowing it. Calls are going out for reining in American military operations in Italy, reports TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They want to lynch these guys," he says. "The Italians are really...
...skip a few of his normal appointments. He shrugs off suggestions of retirement with a joke: "Who would I give my letter of resignation to?" John Paul is determined to lead the church into the next millennium, says Richard John Neuhaus, an American priest and author recently in Rome. "He's not hesitating to exhibit his physical frailties," says Neuhaus, "which I think is intended both as a pastoral help to people with similar frailties and also as a sharing in the suffering of Christ." If the Parkinson's gets worse, he adds, "people could get used to a Pope...
...speaking of ancient Rome, Super Bowl weekend may be the optimal moment to reflect on the true reason for that empire's fall--which, it could be argued, was not decadence, Christianity or post-orgy bulimia but rampant sports mania. At the height of the empire, the stadium was the centerpiece of every Roman town, dwarfing mere housing and temples. Loyalty to the chariot-racing leagues, with their colorful banners, eclipsed all political passions. When the barbarians attacked the gates of the Roman city of Hippo, no one much noticed because the groans of the dying soldiers on the wall...