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Piú lungo della gamba
Read more: Piú lungo della gambaFor Matteo Salvini, now former interior minister, things are not as rosy as they were in the spring. Early into what would become a lengthy Italian stay, I’d go to the Olympic Stadium with my journalist friend Mario every Sunday afternoon to watch matches played by AS Roma, the more…
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Hose
Read more: Hose“Remembering Joys That Have Passed Away,” by Augustus E. Mulready, 1873: when death and sentimentality join forces. My youthful world was one in which no one “passed,” let alone “passed away.” They either “faded away,” as Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said of old soldiers, or they took the rather more…
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The last Gandalf
Read more: The last GandalfWords without end… The old ambassador had me at “hoodwinked.” When he added “bamboozled” and “railroaded,” I was in Seventh Heaven, as always wondering just who had made off with the first six celestial bodies. The old ambassador was not, in fact, a true ambassador, though it hardly mattered to…
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Vendetta in the rearview mirror
Read more: Vendetta in the rearview mirrorIn November 1979, Tehran crowds charged the U.S. Embassy, triggering a 444-day ordeal for the 52 diplomats and American citizens trapped inside. When the likes of John R. Bolton and Steve Bannon were still relatively young men —Donald Trump, also — newly minted Islamic Iran commandeered the U.S. Embassy in…
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Poisoned, again
Read more: Poisoned, againThe Northern League’s Matteo Salvini, rousing and arousing, is dead set on becoming Italy’s next prime minister. When one insurgency hitch falters, hitch a ride with another. A mid-route transfer of this kind appears to be taking place in Italy, at least based on European Parliament election results that saw…
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The hard part
Read more: The hard partLiberal critics of Donald Trump placed entirely too many eggs in Robert J. Mueller’s basket. Liberal critics of Donald Trump placed entirely too many eggs in Robert J. Mueller’s basket. In the crude tap-dance that animates the vindictive side of politics, having an enemy under investigation as a potential crook…
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