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These are very good points, and the babble inside the Beltway delivers no answers. Instead, there is much loose talk about America-as-new-Rome. But Rome never held hearings on the Punic Wars, nor did it slide in and out of indecisive contests. Beholden to 535 Secretaries of State, as Henry Kissinger liked to mock the Congress, the U.S., the oldest democracy in the world, has neither an imperial class nor an imperial ethos. It is Gulliver without the patience to rule...
...necessary. Indeed, no matter which direction you look from the 16-story Commission headquarters in Brussels, the bullets are flying fast and furious. Whether from across the Rhine River in Germany, from over the Seine and Paris, across the English Channel from Britain or even from the distance of Rome and Lisbon, the onslaught has been relentless...
...never the brightest boy, not even in his family. His mother Zohra predicted grand futures for his bookworm elder brother Javed, a Rhodes scholar who works at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, and younger brother Naved, an anesthesiologist in Chicago. Hearty Pervez, she decreed, should be a soldier. "For all of us," Musharraf says today, "she selected the right profession." (Zohra still lives with Musharraf and breakfasts with him most days, reading headlines aloud and making sure he doesn't seem overly stressed. "She sees me off in the morning," the President says...
...intended to fend off British government sanctions against Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing. The British government welcomed the I.R.A.'s acknowledgment of the pain it had caused so many people. ITALY Anti-Semitism Vandals desecrated more than 30 Jewish graves in a nighttime rampage through a Rome cemetery. The vandals smashed headstones and tore off marble Star of David symbols in the Jewish section of the Verano cemetery. Members of Rome's Jewish community and top Italian officials condemned the attack. Police said that several people apparently used iron bars and clubs to damage the graves...
...shortly after LaHaye became a co-chairman of Republican Jack Kemp's short-lived presidential campaign, a Baltimore Sun reporter examined one of LaHaye's theological books, 1974's Revelation: Illustrated and Made Plain. The reporter discovered that LaHaye had called Catholicism a "false religion" and said Rome "too often gives man a false security that keeps him from seeking salvation." The Sun reprinted the comments on a Friday; Catholics and reporters cried foul, and LaHaye resigned from the campaign the following Monday...