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...historian as attending a concert is to a musicologist.” Lest students rush to sign up for HAA and ESP courses, Kim cautions, “Travel can also be hard work. The late Harvard professor John Shearman used to tell his students that when in Rome they should see five churches before breakfast...
Sure enough, quintessential bad-boy Daniel “Skirt” Cleaver (Hugh Grant) saunters on the scene. Cleaver hosts a wildly successful travel show, “The Smooth Guide” (sample travel tips: “When in Rome, do it with a Roman;” “In New York, sex and the city isn’t a program, it’s a promise”). Cue dramatic break-up scene with the too-good-to-be-true Darcy, allowing Bridget to be free for a naughty dabble with Cleaver. What...
...were trying to give a founding narrative to a process that Europe’s citizens have often seen as bureaucratic and distant. Of course, Europe’s complicated past was ever present: A gigantic statue of Pope Innocent X hovered over the signing of the secular document. Rome, rich with architectural symbols of power—those of the ancient empire, of the papacy and of Mussolini’s fascism—was host yet again to a dream of Europe...
...united Europe is not only living up to its potential, it is also excluding war as a political means, since motives to conquer foreign territories will simply not exist in a united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will begin negotiations for EU accession in the near future. Of the six countries which emerged in the 1990s from the former Yugoslavia, only Slovenia has joined the EU. Despite the usual European carnival of controversy, then, something important seems afoot...
...that is likely, then why all the fuss in Rome last week? The Roman performance was still worthwhile. It was the closest that Europe ever has come to a democratic vision of itself—cosmopolitan, secular, with institutions to encourage both free trade and a redistribution of resources. As Pope Innocent X stared on, he probably did not understand what was taking place. The dream of Europe that the men in front of him were attempting to stage was not his dream, nor that of those other power-hungry leaders who once aimed to unite the continent from Paris...