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...really calmed down and seen the logic of the middle ground," she says. "I'm just not ready to shout rhetoric any more at the cue of a red or black flag." Walsh is flying to Italy in August for a ten-month internship with the Rome Daily American. There her salary will be $80 a week, but she adds: "It sounds a lot better in lire -250,000 a month...
...growth dead? The debate over whether economic expansion ought to be laid to rest as a social goal has been perking along briskly since the early 1970s and the publication of The Limits to Growth, the Club of Rome's fervent (and flawed) argument that as population increases, resources will soon run out if industrial development rushes on unchecked. One of the few academics who have rallied to the pro-growth side of the debate so far has been Britain's Wilfred Beckerman, a witty, long-haired Oxford economist who has emerged as a kind of St. George...
...Leisure, Equality and Welfare, an essay soon to be published by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Beckerman challenges another notion dear to many Club of Rome theorists - that G.N.P. is inadequate as a broad measure of how well a country's citizens are faring...
...Father would care to hear Ignatius's views on ecumenism and Church reform, but canned the speech. Hell, I had won--he was the one who was talking heresy now, real burn-'em-at-the-stake stuff if the Knights of the Inquistion ever got the word back to Rome. The quality of mercy is not strained and all that, I thought, so I just nodded and walked away...
...entrance to the second catacomb is hidden behind a mass of shrubbery on the Villa Torlonia, a 13-acre estate in the center of Rome that was once the residence of Mussolini. Slippery, moss-covered steps lead into an airy passageway lined with crude burial slots -probably designed for poorer Jews -about 1 ft. deep, 2 ft. wide and varying in length for children and adults. Both catacombs feature memorial stones carved with Greek or Latin inscriptions (Hebrew was apparently reserved for religious rites). Reads one: "Here lies Pe-gaianos, the scribe and lover of the Law." Both catacombs...