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Borrowed time
Read more: Borrowed timeMubarak is governing on borrowed time. Today’s North Africa bears a striking resemblance to obsolete South America, where for most of the 20th century the military and its baton-wielding progeny managed jailhouse states defined by faux-presidents and gilded feudalism. The pattern came undone in the post-Communist world when dictatorial outposts…
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The rhino
Read more: The rhino“Are you crazy! I’m enjoying myself.” Whatever woe ultimately befalls Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, assuming such a fate lies in store, his ability to redirect hounding shows not only an uncanny resistance to regret but also a view of power that transforms besieging into a form of legitimacy. His…
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Dirty-for-dirty
Read more: Dirty-for-dirtyNorman Rockwell is dead… An uncomfortable truth underlies America’s debate over political rage in the aftermath of a congressional assassination attempt that cost six lives in Arizona. Amateur-hour manifestations of anger, disdain, and resentment are easier and more entertaining than think-twice temperance, disdained as restrictive by those no longer culturally…
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Ex-
Read more: Ex-At visceral moments that I turn to my seatmate… Over the holidays, which were solace in name alone, I learned three things. Better said, three things stuck with me. An old friend, who is 72, is leaving his wife of 40 years. He met another women. His wife tossed him…
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Putin
Read more: PutinNobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. Ten years ago in September Vladimir Putin’s fortunes changed for the better. Osama bin Laden’s pandemonium sidetracked public opinion from the early stages of a sorcery that would yield democracy’s most egregious…
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Alcove
Read more: AlcoveNo salvation. At the core of American civics is good behavior. At the core of all good behavior is Christmas. Gifts give goodness its identity. It’s the prancing horse at the center a century-old capitalist carousel around which paying customers gather as proof of a larger sincerity. So why so…
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