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Donna canone
Read more: Donna canoneA steeple where a tent-top once was. Apermanent gazebo is going up at the American Embassy residence in Rome next door and I’m a witness to its creation. Crouching, bowlegged workers shove shy slats of glass into black girders to make a steeple where a tent-top once was. It’s a…
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Swine
Read more: SwineHow could citizens lead productive lives if haunted daily by the menace of tomorrow’s bad news? Count the ways: “You frightened me.” “You startled me.” “Don’t ever do that!” “You nearly scared me to death.” No speech welcomes the unexpected. No people applaud alarm. No culture is glad with dread. Humanity’s longtime…
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Pakistan
Read more: PakistanRashid Iqbal’s shot of Taliban insurgents in northwest Pakistan. You could call them bullies, Syria, Egypt and Algeria, bad-boy Arab states with long rap sheets and a no-nonsense approach to survival. Syria’s Assad dynasty is an Armani cabal. It slays its own but ships their semen elsewhere, to the West…
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Snapshots
Read more: SnapshotsThe woman in the stadium. Ifound two of my favorite photos on a news agency desk 40 years ago. Both are of a brunette clinging to wire netting. She’s in a stadium and thrilled. In those days I’d take home prints I liked; the office discarded the unused ones. I…
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La nube
Read more: La nubeEyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland. From my Rome balcony, I count the noises. It’s Sunday Noon. Below, a child shouts. Down the private alley, a motorbike revs, the kickstand pulled. In the distance, church bells peal. There’s a car alarm and a few honks. After that, nothing. Silence. It’s as…
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Old vibrations
Read more: Old vibrationsEarthquake epicenters from 1963 to 1998. The earth is a caged circumference rigged to rupture. Those tied to their rural digs are most vulnerable to geological migraines. Remote and bucolic hinterlands are sucked into a sudden vortex that overturns landscape and assassinates its mostly arthritic progeny. Seventy-seven of the confirmed…
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