2004
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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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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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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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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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