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Dooley has been at Harvard for the past five years, spending the last year abroad in Rome in the American Academy...
...Bosnia but now hold about 50%. Last week, however, the Bosnian Serbs were suddenly counterattacking with some success. "The Serbian offensive this week was a major factor in making the cease-fire possible," Holbrooke said in an interview with TIME. As he spoke in his hotel room in Rome, he kept one eye on CNN and was repeatedly interrupted by calls from Washington. "It became clear to the parties concerned that there was something of a military equilibrium on the ground...
...drift of the conversation tugs participants away from the shores of dispute and toward the flow of shared satisfactions in their Catholic faith. Jerry Trees, 56, a financial consultant and chair of the parish pro-life committee, says, "Rome presents the truth, the repository of faith with a history of 2,000 years, and puts things in perspective." Francis Pugh, parish council vice chair and a counsel in the state attorney general's office, offers with a laugh his view of salvation and eternal life: "I have this image that when we go to heaven we'll be greeted with...
...last few pages of Andrew Greeley's 1981 best seller, The Cardinal Sins, there is a scene in which a crowd of reporters has gathered in St. Peter's Square in Rome to await the wisp of white smoke that will signal the election of a new Pope. One of those journalists, Greeley writes, is Jordan Bonfante, TIME's Rome bureau chief, who vanishes "to dash off his story" the moment the smoke appears...
Bonfante's travels--besides Rome, he has covered Greece, Turkey and the Middle East and has served as Time's Paris bureau chief--give him a global perspective on the Pontiff's role. "We in the U.S. are so intent on 'political' questions we sometimes forget that the Pope has a worldwide church to worry about," he says. For this week's piece, Bonfante brought the international perspective home by traveling to predominantly Mexican-American East Los Angeles to visit the Iglesia de la Resurreccion (Church of the Resurrection), where Mass is accompanied by an eight-piece mariachi band, complete...