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After three days of rising protests from students and professors, Pope Benedict XVI has pulled out of a long-scheduled visit Thursday to Rome's historic La Sapienza University. The surprise announcement Tuesday afternoon caps a high-stakes academic firefight between fiercely secular scholars and the former professor Pontiff that included a letter from 67 faculty members calling for the cancellation of Benedict's speech...
...somewhat more human process may eventually grant John Paul another notable title: The Great. He was already endowed with the title "Magnus" by Rome's La Sapienza University in 2003, while top Vatican Cardinals and even Benedict himself have repeatedly referred to him as "Il Grande" Pope John Paul II. There is no official Vatican procedure for bestowing the title, explained Andrea Tornielli, the Vatican correspondent for Il Giornale daily. "It's something that becomes invested over time," he said. So for the most impassioned followers of the Polish pontiff, there is nothing holding you back from calling him John...
Luraghi was born and raised in Turin, Italy, and received his Ph.D from La Sapienza in Rome. He has pursued several post-doctoral fellowships with the Foundation Luigi Firpo, the University of Turin and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellowship...
...Dartmouth men won their third straight Heps title as junior Jarrod Shoemaker (24:36.3) nipped All-American teamate Tom McArdle (24:36.4) by one-tenth of a second. McArdle was hoping to become the first male runner to repeat as Heps champion since Dartmouth’s Jim Sapienza won three straight titles in the early 1980s...
Rome's chief prosecutor Salvatore Vecchione said the substance appeared to be potassium ferrocyanide, a chemical commonly used in gardening and textile dyeing. According to Aldo Lagana, a professor of analytic chemistry at Rome's La Sapienza University, the substance is not lethal when diluted in water. Lagana noted, however, that potassium ferrocyanide can easily be ignited by ordinary gunpowder. "If you burn it in a closed environment," he says, "you can have a very serious situation." The arrested men might have had an attack of this sort - in a subway, perhaps - in mind...