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When the U.S. played God
Read more: When the U.S. played GodJohn Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, two brothers who changed the world — but not in a pretty way. Beware the old days. Old they are – always. But good is another story. Take the year of my birth, 1953. I was then just a tiny made-in-Paris American. At the…
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The Day of the Puma
Read more: The Day of the PumaAcclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini on the set of “La Strada,” a film about a circus troupe, released in 1954. Some forty May moons ago, when balding Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi held monied sway over suddenly booming Italy and his foreign minister paused from hard labor to party in discos,…
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On Pope Francis and war
Read more: On Pope Francis and warPope Francis: rarely, if ever, confrontational, which now works against him. In most of the West, Pope Francis I is facing furious media and public indignation for his unwillingness to openly reprimand Russia’s two-month-old invasion of neighboring Ukraine and the massacres of civilians that have occurred as a result. His…
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The Ukraine sandlot
Read more: The Ukraine sandlotThink mature, adult leaders are either mature or adult? Not when they start fighting… Abully with outsized delusions of long-gone glory invades his now independent but one-time fiefdom to the south because it is showing strong signs of pledging complete allegiance to his sworn enemies, this while his enemies, a…
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Radio days
Read more: Radio daysCelebrated radio broadcaster Harry Caray in his St. Louis Cardinals days. Among the plethora of crannies on the web is a section called “Classic Baseball Radio Broadcasts.” Contained here are more than a hundred recordings of American baseball games involving teams from across the country and spanning more than fifty…
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Coffee with glaucoma
Read more: Coffee with glaucomaCoffee, a simple enough drink to make… if you can see what you’re doing. At the end of the carpeted corridor is a tall step that leads into the kitchen. Remember this well. Memorize its height. Extend your hand from one wall to the other so you know you’re at…
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