2005
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Hemingway’s Beard
Saddam, above, and Adolf Eichmann in his Jerusalem glass booth in 1961. Disgraced dictators are easily mocked. They are caricatures,…
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T2
Rove at risk. But there’s more… Second term scandals are fuel for quick-fix revisionism. Consider their history. Watergate chased out…
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Little Big Man
If Ronald Reagan was Teflon, Berlusconi is taffy. Count on Silvio Berluconi for entertainment. First, he tells the Italian press…
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Ahmed exposed!
Think twice… After years of speculation I’ve finally learned the truth. Do not be alarmed when you read this. Victoria’s…
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Men on Fire
Burn, baby, burn… France inhabits a future it should have known better than to beckon. Acres of colonial spillback mishandled…
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Insight Lite
Ahmadinejad, above, is Iran’s anointed bad boy. French riots are not going away. In an age of information overload mental…
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Suicide Rant
Terrorism — Marxist, Irish, now Islamic — is unprotected by grandness. Rants intrigue me. The latest is Tom Friedman’s, fed…
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Fondling Ophelia
More of you, always you: In smaller doses, but always you: A war. You are a war. You are tired.…
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Call It Eurotrash
Those were the days, my friend… In October 1999, before leaving Rome for a three year stint in Prague, I…
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Lumumba the Martian
A Martian African “Communist” fearsomely named Lumumba. Before I was forced to focus on the vagaries of adulthood, including such…
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Mongrels
Pinter on Iraq: “How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass…
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The Ice Age
Bart Starr sneaks in, above, and Vince Lombardi exults. It’s in the details: In the stands, midwesterners dressed in vestibules…
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Early Honey
Bond, James Bond, and Honey Ryder. This has been a distracting week. First comes news of “inserted DNA,” which has…
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Drink that sweater!
Maybe, whispers my inner Neville Chamberlain, she was merely being clever. Dating over age 40 reminds me of a 1960s…
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Still U.S.A. today
The 1970 image of actor George C. Scott as Gen. Patton has entered patriotic legend. The United States, says the…
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