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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...
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...
...Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...family's journey from Rome in 1906 to GENEVA in the 1970s mirrors its shift from traditional drugmaking to biotech. Three generations of successions make it a most unusual biotech firm...
...down at his desk and telling me, 'One day you'll have to sit in my chair. You'll have to take the decisions.' That makes a big impression on a child," recalls Ernesto, 37. The family firm, Serono, has a long and odd history: it was founded in Rome in 1906, and its best-selling product was long a fertility drug derived from the urine of postmenopausal women, including Italian nuns. Bertarelli's grandfather took it over after the war, and his father Fabio moved it to Geneva in 1977 and began developing new products, including a human-growth...