2004
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Unreal Humanists
Don’t shoot the messenger… So, she wants to know, pointedly this time, what’s it like being single at 50, living…
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Dream On
We’re in this together … vintage 1968. So we went dreaming again. We played the White Album. We played “While…
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Bods
Maradona: All bulked up and nowhere to go. Time now to turn to the ever-longer steroid highlight reel. Sprinter Marion…
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Clinic
Prematurely in tune with the news. In this overheated lobby of mesmerized mothers the televisions are never off. The clinic’s…
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Christmas crush
Cheerleader Susan. Susan Todd’s eyes taught me infatuation at age 16. They were iridescent, unspeakably blue, as if polished nightly…
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Bush League?
President George W. Bush, here with Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, draws mixed reviews among Italians. In the final pages…
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John Kerry
Rome’s Democrats are hoping. Rarely has a race for the American presidency evoked such fervor among U.S. citizens living abroad…
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Lilli Gruber
Lilli Gruber. Award-winning television anchor Lilli Gruber resigned from embattled state broadcaster RAI in April 2004, charging Prime Minister Silvio…
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Slick loathing
Berlusconi had provided ample fodder for parody over the years. Here’s an Italian vignette from another time. It’s the early…
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The Schumi method
Schumacher can sensibly be called the Parmalat antidote, the Italian scene’s superior anti-cliché. He is, believe it, a demitasse-size John…
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We’re getting word…
Madrid: Collecting the dead. BC-Italy-Terror Blast,0976 – URGENT At least 400 dead in terrorist blasts at historic Rome square ROME, Italy…
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