EUROPE, EUROPE (November 25, 2003)

Now that America has ever less to do with the hopeful cry “America, America” of yesteryear, does the yearning whisper “Europe, Europe” spell a new hope for the old continent? And the huddled throngs everywhere? Or will it be the ever-fainter echoes of “Rome, Rome” shouted by crowds of tourist guides, until this museum archipelago crumbles to dust?