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Deluge
Read more: DelugeAfter Hatfield’s “apparatus,” the deluge… Band-Aids are nowhere in sight when human alarm goes feral. The rat-spawned Black Plague produced death by the millions over five lurid centuries and also gave early journalism a boost through Daniel Defoe’s “A Journal of the Plague Year,” a laconic novel rich in casualty…
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Men in black
Read more: Men in blackWhat, me worry? Underestimate survival instincts at your own risk. Those who know power don’t relinquish it easily. For them, nation is self-extension, wingspan. Enemies are all those who poke at it. It’s adolescent drama for lapsed adults. Writers in Europe and the United States don’t understand why Silvio Berlusconi…
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Lurch
Read more: LurchTunisian refugees on the island of Lampedusa. The coming traffic is from the south. Put aside ruminations on democracy. Curb your inspiration. The coming traffic weds the human to the tectonic. Pieces of the African plate — the people on its Libyan cusp — will soon jab hard at Europe’s…
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The headmaster
Read more: The headmasterSolar panels atop the Vatican. The headmaster with the effeminate voice wants solar panels installed on his school. He believes in solar energy, in ecology, in progress. This at least is what he tells my friend, who works in the industry. What perplexes my friend isn’t so much the headmaster’s…
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Franz Joseph
Read more: Franz Joseph“Franz Joseph squared the world like paper…” Are you watching this? asks an American friend, riveted to televised events in giddy Cairo. I’m not, but Egypt is not to blame. Instead, I’m writing fiction’s latest concession speech. I’m finally prepared to admit that the burlesque of the unfolding has definitively…
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Enthrall me
Read more: Enthrall meAllen Funt’s “Candid Camera”: The naked I. Since a September day changed its landscape, American media has come to crave the uplifting afforded by real and imagined heroism. Heroism’s potential fodder is everywhere: In crises, natural disasters, presidential elections, even in foreign insurrections. America’s attachment to small and large-scale virtuousness…
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