2011
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Death throes
Qaddafi: Dead in Sirte, his hometown. As winter street protests paralyzed Cairo and Hosni Mubarak’s military apparatus appeared to shun…
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Eurobabble
Charlie Chaplain’s Adenoid Hynkel and Jackie Oakie’s Benzino Napaloni. Germany pick up. France pick up. Make call. Italy answer. Greece…
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3a
Crisis. The word crisis is at war with itself. Definition 1a squabbles stressfully with 3a. Give irony its due: Crisis…
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Bicycle thieves
Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 Bicycle Thieves: A poor country. The nickel and dime borrowing of my American youth came with…
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Billions
Mario Monti in 1984. Tune the static out of Italy’s fix-it government and you’re left with a class society trying…
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Blood money
French 1920s poster: “The Real Social Enemy is the Capitalist Who Tramples the People and Grabs the Gold.” Alsop Osterman…
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