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Rudge’s time
Read more: Rudge’s timeRudge and Pound: Lifelong partners. Olga Rudge was poet Ezra Pound’s companion for half-a-century. She met the Idaho-born writer in Paris in 1920 and remained at his side in Fascist Italy, where before and during World War II he made radio broadcasts on behalf of Benito Mussolini’s regime. In 1945,…
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Rome: Not with a bang but a whimper
Read more: Rome: Not with a bang but a whimperThe Spanish Steps on March 11, 2020: For those who dare (and can still travel), a chance to see a city that belongs to them alone. What, you ask, is it like to live in a diminished Rome in which a disruptively contagious virus has been rashly conferred the medieval…
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Robin Williams
Read more: Robin WilliamsOne man; acres of competing personalities. I lived outside Italy for the better part of the 1970s and 1980s, and even into the decade that followed. Pre-Internet days allowed no sharing of pop culture. I knew what I knew about American television and humor through friends and newspaper articles. I…
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Retrodeath
Read more: RetrodeathThe Rome Fiumicino attack in December 1985 claimed 18 dead. Since September 11, 2001, Western Europe has witnessed two spectacularly lethal terrorist incidents, the first the detonation of bombs on commuter trains in Madrid, Spain in March 2004, the second in July 2005, with suicide bombers setting off explosives on…
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Red boy, Hitler boy
Read more: Red boy, Hitler boyA Tartar named Galimzyan Salikhovich Khusainov put the Soviets ahead. In June 1964, I was a Communist. Exactly two years later I was a Nazi. No one was sure what to make of my makeover since neither creed had many postwar takers. Ideological transformation carries the risk of punishment. I…
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Red alert
Read more: Red alertKadyrov: Nothing like showing off. A word of warning, better late than never: ignore Chechnya at your own risk. Not the Chechnya of the bloody 1990s wars against Russia, but the “repaired” Chechnya under Muslim rule, sanctioned by Moscow, its guts still shredded by strife that pits government Muslims against…
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