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...uproar over the scheduled destruction of two of the city's recently discovered archaeological treasures: the ruins of a Roman bath complex that dates back 2,000 years and the underground remains of the Rose, the Elizabethan theater where Shakespeare may have premiered Titus Andronicus and Henry VI and even trod the stage...
...Muammar Gaddafi's tent). Readers have even asked us to track down people in TIME pictures who resemble long- lost college roommates (the resemblance is almost always just that). After we reported on the 100th birthday of Esperanto, readers tested our knowledge of that language. Wrote one: "Mi dankas vi pro instro in Esperanto" (Thank you for the Esperanto lesson...
...government finds Harvard in violation of Title VI of U.S. code, which prohibits federally funded institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, creed or religion, the University could lose all federal aid, which includes almost $2 million in financial aid and much more in research grants...
...Giuseppi Roncalli, 76. Roncalli, of course, became Pope John XXIII, whose Vatican Council set in motion epochal reforms in the church. But Montini, who was made a Cardinal by John, finally got his turn after John died in 1963, and it was his dogged bureaucratic talents, as Pope Paul VI, that made the sweeping new policies stick. Thus, writes Wilton Wynn, "the old Cardinals locked up in each successive conclave chose as Pope precisely the personality most needed at the moment." Wynn, a correspondent in TIME's Rome bureau from 1962 to 1985, offers a memoir of his Vatican watching...
...encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI strongly reaffirmed his church's traditional opposition to artificial means of birth control. That authoritative teaching left Roman Catholic couples with only two ways to limit the size of their families: 1) use the morally acceptable rhythm method, which was then so unreliable as to justify the sobriquet "Roman roulette"; or 2) follow their consciences rather than papal counsel and adopt such forbidden means of contraception as diaphragms, condoms or the Pill -- which millions...