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Κατακλυσμός
Read more: ΚατακλυσμόςMeet Mr. Harvey. Houston did. Not a month ago, they remarked – these august journalists seated at an August dinner table – how the summer had been tranquil, too tranquil in fact, too absentminded and non-visual. Calamity was missing and they were as bored as their five-alarm-fire industry, left to…
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Pity the general
Read more: Pity the generalSmiles aside, future glory seems improbable. Pity the general. He is the son of a general who was the son of a colonel. Your summer means nothing to him. He’s been at this for years, the task of the military. He began at the bottom and worked his way up.…
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House of Trump
Read more: House of TrumpDonald Trump is still campaigning. Ask a hyperbolic and self-interested businessman to weigh in on an acrimonious racial dispute and he’ll invariably support the loyal shareholders who vouched for his seat at the table. Admittedly, such hardheadedness isn’t usually associated with the U.S. presidency, an office long tethered to a…
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Loudmouths
Read more: LoudmouthsNorth Korea’s Kim Il-sung (1972-1994) and Kim Jong-il (1997-2011), a father-son dynasty now in the hands of Kim no. 3, Kim Jong-un. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are easy to mock. Both naturally play into caricature. One is a narcissistic billionaire president who has long equated profit with success and…
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M&M power
Read more: M&M powerThe two M’s, Macron and Merkel, have patiently helped restart the EU. Donald trump has received an early Christmas present. The U.S. dollar is plunging globally, favoring the sale of American goods abroad. The economic reasons are myriad and complex. The psycho-political ones, at least in Europe, are far less…
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The third coming
Read more: The third comingDetail from Picasso’s “Guernica”: never mind enlightened thinking. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. That’s an old one. Here’s a twist: If you want to make death chuckle, tell a someone you suffer from an irreversible condition. Irreversible is a dirty word on a…
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