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A hunchback named malaise
Read more: A hunchback named malaiseIf the hump lessens its curve, things are good… Italy has just begun the first phase of its coronavirus recovery plan. Factories are open. Citizens may visit local relatives. While stay-home orders stand, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Why then does it not feel like that, at…
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Gyre
Read more: GyreThe center cannot hold… On the phone, my Rome ophthalmologist loses his cool. I have called to give him birthday greetings. He has been treating my devastated eyes for years. But he doesn’t thank me. He says, “This is madness. Folly. I cannot do this. I have patients who need…
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When way of life comes first
Read more: When way of life comes firstMickey Mantle in 1967 at Yankee Stadium after striking out in the twilight of his fabled career. Trey Hollingsworth and Dan Patrick are not household names in the United States or elsewhere. Patrick, the 70-year-old lieutenant governor of Texas, shares a name with a popular sportswriter, while the 36-year-old Indiana…
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Max’s burden
Read more: Max’s burdenGive me one good reason why I shouldn’t send you home. No, wait, make that three…. Here is a Rome corona-anecdote whose numbers will one day fill volumes and be wryly recited. My plumber Max cannot work. He lives in a hamlet outside Rome and whenever he tries to go…
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With underwood aforethought
Read more: With underwood aforethoughtNot all Frank Underwood methods are fictional…. and the house of cards is all around. A not especially subtle American president made a very shrewd move the other day. Breaking from his immoveable optimism about what he’d previously considered a second-rate virus, he owned up that it was indeed a…
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An Eastertime dirge
Read more: An Eastertime dirgeAsk not for whom the bell tolls… The meaning of life is that it ends. • Franz Kafka, dead of tuberculosis at age 40. It is the planet’s most deadly infectious disease, killing between one and two million people annually, more than a tenth of those infected. The figure is rarely publicized…
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