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...White House. They deserve a say in the electoral process. America, it's time to let the rest of the world vote for your President. Before you snigger, there are ample precedents for my proposal. Those lucky enough to be conquered and made honorary citizens of ancient Rome were polled once in a while, and the citizens of French territories like French Polynesia and French Guiana still vote for a French President every five years. The rest of the world may not be an official American colony, but it sure feels that way sometimes. And if the CIA used...
...ROME Fendi's Vanity, shown here in pink canvas and leather with a crescent-shaped mirror ($1,260), is a hit with fashion mavens like Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker...
...preoccupied by Daslu's brand-new five-story building in Vila Olimpia, a commercial district, to show it. The new flagship will boast a champagne bar, a Japanese restaurant and even a real estate bureau, where clients can find pieds-a-terre in Miami and Rome. Pampered customers are waited on by the daughters of politicians and plutocrats, known as Dasluzetes, and a cadre of attendants in maid's uniforms folds clothes and serves espresso. Only at Daslu do female clients blithely disrobe in the aisles, since there are no fitting rooms to speak of (men are barred from...
...office in Israel in the late 1990s. Since the summer of 2001, he has worked as an Iran expert for Douglas Feith, the Pentagon's third ranking official, a neoconservative long in favor of tougher measures against Iran. In 2001 Franklin and a Pentagon colleague were dispatched to Rome for a meeting with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who had been a key figure in the 1980s' Iran-contra scandal. They were seeking intelligence on Iran from him. But the CIA has long considered Ghorbanifar unreliable, and the Bush Administration later cut off the contacts...
SETTLED. A class action against RAY MARSH, operator of the Tri-State Crematory in rural Georgia, where the uncremated remains of 334 people were found in storage buildings and surrounding forests in 2002; for $80 million; in Rome, Ga. Marsh, 31, faces an October trial on 787 criminal charges...