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Peeing
Read more: PeeingStudents around the ditch where Vincenzo Amendola was found, shot twice in the head. In early February a jobless 18-year-old named Vincenzo Amendola disappeared from his east Naples housing complex. Two weeks later police found his body in a nearby ditch. He’d been shot twice in the head. Naples is…
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Mr. Lonelyhearts
Read more: Mr. LonelyheartsMy next move, he says, advancing the story line. What do I tell a 46-year-old friend who calls me holding back tears to tell me his younger wife has left him for another man? What do I say after he reads me a terse text message that ends with the…
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Bankers in the basement
Read more: Bankers in the basementBeware small alien lords. Ilive in a self-styled country of miracles, a realm of savants, mystics, skeptics and conspiracy theorists. Though I’m only a mile from the modest home of a gentle pope, I hear stories of aliens, sleeper cells, and second comings. I am informed beyond a reasonable doubt…
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Nameless and troubling
Read more: Nameless and troublingThe Republican debates have led some foreign commentators to speculate on the sources of American anger. More than 60 years ago, an Austrian-born American management consultant and business writer named Peter Drucker foresaw the advent of a “nameless era” in which large companies would help ensure social purpose and a…
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M for me
Read more: M for meNo gum chewing allowed… Ionce charged regularly into elementary school with my sloppy jaws in motion. “Get rid of that gum!” barked the monitor, and I complied reluctantly. I was eight at the time. What else could I do? But being denied irked me. My vision of human rights concerned…
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Reaping
Read more: ReapingWhat happened, mortality wonders, to the good old days? Mortality can use a good week from time to time, one in which it can mock life “expectancy” and gargle on Scotch and wry proverbs. “If you want to make God laugh,” goes one, “tell him about your plans.” Mortality finds…
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