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Read more : 93Writer and radio personality Studs Terkel, left, in conversations with legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko in the 1980s. Terkel died in 2008 at 96. My 93-year-old friend and former editor has taken to reading about the composition of the universe. He tells me chaos theory is not chaotic but random.…
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Ominous palms
Read more: Ominous palmsMock palm readers at your own peril. Some reliable sources talk nonsense. Savants can have the same knack. This did not stop the oversight of a gypsy woman camped on the heights of Rome’s Giancarlo from acquiring a steady stream of Sunday visitors. She had the face of an owl,…
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Beasts of the Cretaceous II
Read more: Beasts of the Cretaceous IIWhen in Necropolis, don’t forget to sightsee. After being delivered to a child psychologist to exorcise my affection for all things gone – my inner world hinged only extinct reptiles and the Titanic – I again flirted wih that fate when I demanded to know the exact population of the all-time dead.…
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All the time in the world
Read more: All the time in the worldDespite political chaos, Kabul thrived in between 1950 and 1970s. One day soon the United States will strike a face-saving deal to extricate its troops from Afghanistan. It will be a slow slouch home with little to show for a near-hopeless two-decade investment that began with rugged crowds of exalted…
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The 60 percent solution
Read more: The 60 percent solutionTory Prime Minister David Cameron staked his career on Brexit’s rejection, and lost, in part because the London side of Britain failed to take the 2016 referendum seriously enough. ot all results are created equal. Aspects of politics and sports suggest the way victory is arrived at and how its…
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Beasts of the Cretaceous
Read more: Beasts of the CretaceousDinosaurs weren’t viable as a religion, but seemed far more interesting than Jesus. Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A more practical way of saying this might be to explain that I’m now a late middle-aged if still fanciful adult with…
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