2005
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Cruise Control
Lauer to Cruise: Uh, let me think about that… I’m bad with dead aliens, worse with lost souls, incorrigible over…
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Eye of the Storm
Making city-dwellers feel helpless and vulnerable is a strategy of itself. Tony Blair is right. So is George Bush. And…
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The Dark Side
“Painstaking, cautious, clever and very sophisticated.” Aword to the wise: Hospitals in Rome are ready: 100, 200, 300. You name…
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Beware, Emergency
Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot and killed by London police in a “tragic accident.” Institutional anger in…
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Bay of Figs
Castro of the alarming yeast canals. My father brooded in July. Heat made him dour. He sat on a wooden…
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The Vibrator
The towns had exotic names: Chitina, Glennallen, Homer, Moose Pass. There was even a town called Hope. It lasted four…
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The Rothmund Void
Cindy Sheehan: Not beloved on the right. What precisely constitutes an authoritarian state? Is it one where a government brandishes…
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Dead Heat
A Roosevelt, Teddy, might fit these times. Its advocates charge ahead, oblivious. Visiting has its privileges. What, my friends ask,…
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Toxic Atlantis
There is no Hell better than the latest one… If, as Jorge Luis Borges suspected, Earth is the mother of…
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Things Fall Apart
New Orleans in the lawless time of Katrina is what a nation spent a century trying rationally to retire to…
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Fang
Boschville. The demographics of my nook are simple. There is me and my depression. Me, you can see a mile…
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Spogli’s Promise
Spogli: A fresh approach, he says. Now here’s something novel. A new U.S. ambassador — appointed by the Bush Administration…
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Curvaceous, Cassandra, vulva
Pyrrhic, you said. Victory in vain. Here’s the boy using the word egregious for the first time. EGG-ree-just, he says. You…
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Requiem
Auden: 1973. No one should edit a daily newspaper at 24, let alone at 32. I did. Chance. Luck of…
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Mind the Birds
The flavoring of news with menace has turned into a magically successful business. Interesting phrase, “Breaking News.” It replaced “Bulletin,”…
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