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...That did not happen. What emerged instead was a unipolar world, the U.S. bestriding the globe like a colossus, more dominant in every field of endeavor - economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, even linguistic - than any other nation since Rome...
Around the globe--in South America, Africa, Russia and other parts of Asia--the benefits of a world-market economy, globalization, were also coming under pressure. This unease rocked Seattle when, starting on Nov. 29, 1999, antiglobalist protesters ran amuck at a World Trade Organization meeting. Demonstrators indiscriminately trashed icons of capitalism, from McDonald's to the Gap, and the message got across: globalism doesn't float all boats...
That did not happen. What emerged instead was a unipolar world, the U.S. bestriding the globe like a colossus, more dominant in every field of endeavor--economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, even linguistic--than any other nation since Rome...
With anti-American sentiment increasing around the globe in the wake of Wednesday’s invasion of Iraq, safety concerns have put many students’ carefully-planned spring break itineraries in jeopardy...
...more on the military, we must spend less somewhere else or face spiraling taxes and/or deficits. All the effects of war will be borne by our generation more than any other. We will pay the bills for increased military spending; we will be asked to bear arms around the globe; and we will be the victims or the beneficiaries of whatever changes come with this new doctrine of preemptive action...