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...counting on Benedict touching down in China. Though there are an estimated 12 million Catholics in the Middle Kingdom, its diplomatic ties with the Vatican have remained broken since 1951. Rome has repeatedly reached out to Beijing, hoping to overcome a standoff over who appoints China 's Catholic bishops. The so-called Patriotic Church, which reports to Beijing, has continued to crack down on papal loyalists in China and appoint bishops without Rome's consent. The two-day meeting in Rome was another sign that the Pope is hoping a softer approach will open the door to normalization...
PETER CHIEN Rome...
...ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique of the idea that external threats justify politicians taking extraordinary power. But why this sudden thing for the toga-and-sandals set? Quid donat...
...renewed passion for the classical world. The culture has lately offered up for mass consumption two new histories of the Peloponnesian War, a whacking great biography of Julius Caesar, a film on Alexander the Great (plus a book lauding his business strategy), the current bbc-hbo series on Rome, Robert Harris' recent novel Imperium and a book (with a film to come this year) on the battle of Thermopylae...
...the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (rough translation: The mother is obvious; the father is the one she was married to when the child was born). The Romans, however, didn't have access to genetic testing. Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results...