2011
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Crane no. 2: For the zoo? A museum? From my bedroom window, in the distance, I can see two construction…
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Amici come prima
Dino Buzzati (1902-1972) worked for Milan’s Corriere della Sera. My favorite Italian work of fiction is a nine-page short story…
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Broken toy
Mission accomplished when it wasn’t, and couldn’t be. That the United States would attack Iraq became clear to me in…
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Havel
Václav Havel: An intellectual trapped inside a president. Reverence can falter up close. Jonathan Swift, a great debunker, focused on…
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Crowpid Ledge
Tintin, protector of only children. Ilearned the word “unbeknownst” at age 10. It meant to climb to the roof at…
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And the cradle will rock
In temperament, Italy stands apart from Europe. The crisis afflicting Italy and Europe is incomprehensible to many Italians. It is…
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