2011
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Decorum
Dirksen, right, with Lyndon Johnson: Flexible at all times. Central to an American boyhood was learning how a bill became…
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Hideous men
Hosni Mubarak: The necessary scapegoat. Ifirst saw a courtroom cage more than 30 years ago in Turin. Inside were Red…
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The war gene
Detail from an American World War I recruiting poster. For two testosterone-driven millennia man’s ultimate rush was war. Imbalances, pride,…
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The tolling
The Paris Commune: The first revolt. To question the meaning of a tolling bell, the poet John Donne once wrote,…
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The l-word
Alarming swirls. Here is a problem with 21st-century existence: Living life in the rabble-roused moment, from urgency to emergency, lessens…
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Mañana
Weaned on Tintin, I mostly gurgled and sighed. When I first arrived in the United States I was a concave…
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