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Giver & Mass
Read more: Giver & MassNewly elected President Sergio Mattarella, an ex-Christian Democrat, above, and former Christian Democratic President Giovanni Leone, with honor guard, in 1973, below: a sense of déjà vu. In the late 1980s a February storm blew out two big windows in my Rome apartment. The tempest raged for days as if…
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Brian Williams
Read more: Brian WilliamsMyths can land you in the dark. Decades ago I was sent to Iraq to cover a major earthquake as well as a wave of civil unrest that together would usher in that country’s Islamic revolution. I stayed at the home of my agency’s full-time correspondent, an astute Pakistani. While…
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Blame the insurgents
Read more: Blame the insurgentsA blizzard’s failure to blizzard can seem unmanly. Factions of weather still have spunk, agents of its insurgent wing. These are granular soldiers that resist prediction to gain revenge on their satellite zookeepers. The insurgents just got the upper hand in New York City. Meteorologists looked at snapshots from their…
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Multiple moons
Read more: Multiple moonsThe word “unique,” powerful and singular. My eighth-grade English teacher was a man named Mr. Grossman who sported a natty mustache and spoke wisely about words and phrases. The familiar line, “The reason is because” was a tautology. “The reason is that,” or “It’s because,” pick one, he told us.…
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Human warming
Read more: Human warmingAnimal wiring has its limits. One place brings news that 2014 was the hottest year in human history, calamity in a cameo locket. Another, Paris, introduces nerve-fraying laws punishing public hatefulness if spoken by putative terrorists. Then comes Switzerland with its decision to cut ties to the already-plunging euro. Continental…
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At peace with terror
Read more: At peace with terrorFor the West, after 1945: so far, so good. In 2015 the West marks 70 years of peace. Not Asia. Not the Middle East. Western nations alone among 20th-century world war participants have successfully if precariously avoided battlefield relapses. Led by the United States and Russia, they have burrowed into…
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