Word: rome
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...taken a lot of criticism in Europe lately. What are the important things about America that some Europeans do not understand? Some Europeans don't understand that the world changed radically after Sept. 11. On Nov. 10, 2001, in the most beautiful piazza in Rome, we organized a rally in solidarity with an attacked and offended nation and flew the U.S. flag. We were the only ones to do it, and we are proud. I think we are making some headway, though, with the idea that anti-Americanism and anti-globalization are not progressive politics but are pure ideological trash...
...especially since winning the Cincinnati commission in 1998--in a competition in which she beat out both Libeskind and Bernard Tschumi--Hadid has at last been getting jobs of a size that match her gifts, to say nothing of her press. There's another contemporary art center in Rome, offices and a factory for BMW in Leipzig, Germany, and a master plan for an enormous science city in Singapore. Her next American project is an art center near the base of Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla...
...GRANTED. SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 66, Italian Prime Minister; immunity from prosecution; in Rome. Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, is accused by Milan prosecutors of bribing judges in the 1980s to prevent a business rival taking over a state-owned food group? a charge he denies. The new immunity law bans any court proceedings against Italy's five most senior government figures during their time in office. Berlusconi's term expires in 2006, but he has the option of running for re-election...
...MOVIES ARE THE NEW EPICS. The side-by-side race in The Fast and the Furious is a modern Ben-Hur chariot race. Instead of re-creating ancient Rome and bossing around thousands of extras in togas, directors get to re-create a strip of the San Diego Freeway and wreck lots of cars. That's the majesty of being in charge of an action film. In Hollywood you're not a true creator unless you can destroy stuff...
DIED. LUCIANO BERIO, 77, experimental Italian composer; in Rome. Utilizing everything from electronic sounds to the spoken word, he created an innovative body of work that often divided critics. His 1968 Sinfonia, which he conducted for the New York Philharmonic, featured passages from Beckett and Joyce, musical quotations from Mahler and Stravinsky, student graffiti and the Swingle Singers to create what TIME praised as a "new kind of dramaturgy...