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By the tracks
Read more: By the tracksRome’s Termini station has always been a class-free and multiethnic hive, but now the tracks are locked off. Before security, my two favorite cities possessed grand places to which I’d migrate after the madding crowd concluded its daylong work and sightseeing stampedes. In Washington, D.C. I’d decamp after dinner on…
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Sale and commission
Read more: Sale and commissionIn 1961, outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower, right, warned of the ascent of a so called military-industrial complex: “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” The three decades between 1950 and 1980 witnessed lively debate about the virtues and shortcomings of capitalism. After all, it…
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My way
Read more: My wayDonald Trump speaking at the U.S. Embassy residency in Rome, Villa Taverna. One morning last week my one-night-stand presidential neighbor told a well-heeled crowd in a beautiful Rome garden that peace, prosperity and greatness lay ahead. Every third sentence was greeted by warm applause. He seemed very much at home…
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Notsies
Read more: NotsiesThe Franco family was no exception to the size rule. It’s been about 40 years since I was last pregnant. That happened in Spain toward the end of the Franco dictatorship. We lived for a few years in Madrid — my mother, my father, my cat, and our dog —…
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Pizza a taglio
Read more: Pizza a taglioAn unexpected career change. Adecade ago, a nearby neighbor ran a thriving Rome construction business that remodeled homes and refurbished offices all over the city. He worked out of a basement hole in the wall not much larger than a closet where I’d see him burning the midnight oil on…
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A day in the life
Read more: A day in the lifeIn the fashionable heyday of jet travel, posters were invitations to a luxury experience. It will be a very long day at the hospital but I’m unaware of it when I arrive at 8 a.m. under bright sunny skies. I am there for a cortisone shot in my right eye,…
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