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...anyone else has tuned into them," says assistant managing editor Steve Koepp. Of course, if there's a gene for journalism, Painton may enjoy a hereditary advantage. Her father Fred Painton is a TIME writer of long standing. Because he was frequently posted abroad, his daughter was born in Rome and graduated from high school in Paris, where, she says, "politics is inhaled with the first breath...
...after seven months amid conflict-of-interest charges, is attempting a comeback just as the trial gets underway. Premier Lamberto Dini resigned last week, and President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro is meeting with potential candidates to suceed him. Berlusconi meets with Scalfaro on Friday. TIME's Greg Burke reports from Rome: "This is a do-or-die situation for Belusconi, who wants the premiership back. We have no idea how strong a case the prosecutors have. The question is whether he paid them off willingly, or was forced to by the tax inspectors, who have a reputation for extorting payments...
...said that the Canales ring smuggled at least 10,000 people a year into the U.S. through Central America, many of them Chinese and Indians, for fees of up to $6,000 apiece. In February,the State and Justice Departments set up a cooperative plan with intelliegence "assets" in Rome, Mexico City, Bangkok and other locations to crack the ring. Canales was deported to Honduras on December 12. U.S. officials requested that Canales be sent to Honduras because it is the only Central American country in which smuggling humans is a crime...
...some scholars speculate that Jesus, a carpenter by trade, might have found work there. If so, he may have been exposed to a wider range of cultures and ideas than his origins in rustic Nazareth would suggest. Did he, for example, learn to speak Greek, the common language of Rome's empire, as well as Aramaic and Hebrew...
...never too early to start booking rooms for the Olympics, so here are the 10 cities on the IOC's short list for the Summer Olympics in 2004: Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Juan, Stockholm, Rome, Seville, Istanbul, Cape Town, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida) and a yet-to-be-determined city in France...