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Paris, II
Read more: Paris, IIGetting on with things might be better than emotionally-driven solidarity efforts. In the 36 months after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist acts, American mass media all but lost its wits, and with it the U.S. executive branch and the country’s terrified citizenry. America cities were seen as under imminent threat,…
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Paris
Read more: ParisNo war or intervention in war exists in a vacuum. The 21st-century West is a largely affluent and safeguarded place. It hosts an admixture of civilizations that live as well or better than any people have at any time in human history. They possess food, shelter as well as devices…
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Dear Amazon
Read more: Dear AmazonThanks but no thanks. Dear Amazon: You asked me a fair question the other day. I know you ask it a lot. I don’t flatter myself into thinking it’s personal. When you say “you,” your second person is a mob. That happens in trying to make a billion people happy…
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Number one
Read more: Number oneTales of Napoleon can make your wait more endurable. Forget guidebook platitudes: visitors to Italy need to know the country operates on a different numeration system than most so-called advanced states. For example, in Italy, two and three come before one. Natives know this implicitly, just as they know that…
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The brave
Read more: The braveCharles Whitman was an Eagle Scout at age 12. After Charles Whitman shot and killed 14 people from a tower at the University of Texas in 1965, mass media settled on a single detail: that he had been the youngest Eagle Scout in Texas history. The coexistence of bright light…
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Jacky Sutton
Read more: Jacky SuttonJacky Sutton, center, goat in arms, in her 1990s Eritrea days. Six years ago a massively gifted former girlfriend sent me a synopsis for a novel on she was working on with a friend, hoping I might help her find an agent. She was as always on the go between…
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