2004
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Distraction
The meatier George took the fall. Today, my attention turns to an online column by Corriere Della Sera editor Stefano Folli. What’s…
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Dread
Use your imagination. Afew days after the destruction of the Twin Towers I remarked that a “shortfall of imagination” among…
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Sheriff
Massachusetts charm. The sport of baseball has a useful construct to determine a victor. The home team bats last, giving…
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Vinaigrette
Who needs sensitivity? In the cluttered chapbook of presidential politics it will be remembered as a minor skirmish in the…
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Overkill
Why tempt them with our fears? Since early August American columnist Nicholas Kristof has written solemnly about the prospect of…
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Barbarians
Barbarians may be at the gate, but who opened it? As terrorist atrocities add charred children to severed heads the…
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Doctrine
That was then, but who’s taking chances now? President Vladimir Putin recently indicated how the so-called war on terrorism can…
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Intentions
Schlesinger: “Americans are bad imperialists.” There are distinct Iraq realities, like computer menu options, available for public display in the…
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How to Hate, Part 1
Talking in smoke. Give credit to Italy’s left-leaning labor union CGIL and the rainbow peace coalition for the most farcical…
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Whatever
So, like, maybe a mistake? Before me is email information about an art exhibit an organizer wants me to promote.…
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Amok
Just stay erect. Something’s off with the hormonal alchemy of this American election. It has a libidinal component that polls…
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Birthday
Author and father, Positano, 1958. Family photo. My father had a birthday last week. No big fuss. Never is with…
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Windhoek
Giacomo Balla’s, “Abstract Speed + Sound” When it’s about a girl the air vanishes fast. She’s with the wrong man.…
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Whining
He did what he could… First, and this is essential, let’s talk about what went right. Nearly 110 million people…
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Dirty Minds
Let’s agree to disagree, said Max Rabb. When I was editor of the Rome Daily American two decades ago I had little…
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