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The Lost Time
Read more: The Lost TimeFilling up The Lost Time. As boys, the time in which we thought we had nothing to do was called The Lost Time. The Lost Time came in summer or after school, when homework was done. To fill it, we’d congregate in a leaf-filled alley and rue our fate. “Everything’s…
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Last flag standing
Read more: Last flag standingThe 17th Lancers: Ill-fated… Eight years ago the United States began an offensive against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan largely on the grounds it had aided and abetted Muslim extremists in their terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A multination military effort assisted by the systematic…
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Amba Aradam
Read more: Amba AradamThe message may not be clear but it’s colorful. The shop that sells tiny batteries for my aging watch has gone bust. This is too bad since I had trooped all the way there, and my watch has read four minutes to 11 for four days now, a suggestive if…
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Used men
Read more: Used menFrom Detroit. Bring a kit. Ioccasionally I trawl Craig’s List in search of provocative and edifying personal ads. Craig is an acknowledged master of “trait-warping,” an evolving social science that involves inducing hypnotic misrepresentation by both genders. Craig and his cutting-edge list rarely disappoint. Here are some finds. SEXY WOMAN…
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Golden Calf
Read more: Golden CalfJoltin’ Joe and Marilyn: Myths and more myths. If Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize peeves or perplexes you, take a minute to talk to Paul Simon. Or even Art Garfunkel. For European intellectuals besotted by the 1960s, election year 2008 was Joe DiMaggio all over again. The 1968 tune was…
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Then
Read more: ThenPolanksi with Catherine Deneuve in 1967. Anything but passing strange that the case of director Roman Polanski would remind me of my mother’s best friend Clelia. She was built like a bicycle spoke and for decades dedicated herself to one man, former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, a Hobbit-shaped politician…
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