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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...
...disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February. In the space of two weeks, at least 10 victims have died and hundreds more have fallen ill in places as far afield as Hong Kong, New York, Rome and Toronto...
...reluctant to spend their precious time worrying about the troubles of people they have never met. But President Bush’s willingness to go it alone puts a special responsibility on American voters. We are the only ones who can prevent or force a war. Demonstrators in Rome or Paris may be committed, but they didn’t elect the government that will make the final decision on Iraq, and they can’t get rid of it. Bush may not be a model of democratic decisionmaking, but he will listen to his constituents if they speak...
DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, actor who helped popularize postwar Italian comedies; in Rome. The working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
...DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, legendary comic actor who personified the postwar Italian male, with all his vices and virtues, during a career that spanned more than 50 years; in Rome. Known to Italians as "Big Alberto," Sordi often played an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. He appeared in more than 160 films, although he is best known internationally for his role in the 1965 adventure-comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...