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Wilton Wynn
Read more: Wilton WynnPope John Paul II and Wilton Wynn. Acolleague and friend recently asked me to dig up a black-and-white photograph I had squirreled away among the paper secretions I horde to nourish memory. A picture may tell a thousand words, but images without words prey only on emotions, which usually tell…
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Upgrade
Read more: UpgradeScans are intelligent… up to a point. Amajor American newspaper recently published a report on the brain as it ages. The older brain is apparently more porous and prone to memory lapses. Miracle scans aside, the study broke no new ground. A few centuries ago the lapses of an aging…
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Strauss-Kahn
Read more: Strauss-KahnDominque Strauss-Kahn: No available wormhole. In an episode of a popular American crime drama, a team of special agents tries to thwart an Islamic terrorist planning an attack on Los Angeles. The last line of defense isn’t an automatic weapon but a sex tape that the terrorist shot with a…
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Lunch
Read more: LunchThe maker of the crab pasta asks me if Osama Bin Laden is really dead. On a bright Tuesday in May a group of highly educated and affluent middle class Italians gather for an early afternoon lunch. The hostess has made crab pasta. Four women (there are two men) talk…
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Eagle Claw snapped
Read more: Eagle Claw snappedNight vision of the Tabas aftermath. Raids have a ring. So do images of commandoes armed to the hilt leaping from stealthy helicopters into the hard heart of alien nations, eyes on a prize. They are, apologies to Joni Mitchell, the star-maker machinery behind the popular song, in this case…
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Proprium beati
Read more: Proprium beatiPope John Paul II visiting a mine in 1980. No patience for Liberation Theology. My Polish-born mother was skeptical of Pope John Paul II. She was unmoved by the superstar globetrotting that followed his 1978 election and attributed his wanderlust to having escaped the claustrophobia of Communist Poland. “He’s a…
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