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Tooken, then stricken
Read more: Tooken, then strickenBeing tooken can mean being had, which can leave you and your chest strickened. Among the hardest arguments to sustain in a look-at-this society is one that asserts a right way and wrong way in the manner people speak and write their common language. Human rights are easier to champion.…
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Ratty opinion
Read more: Ratty opinionThe downing of Malaysian airliner has opened the door to predictable but unfortunate hyperbole. If there was once a cardinal rule in writing wire service dispatches, it was this: never make it personal. Facing the heinous, the dastardly, the awful or the disagreeable — news so distasteful it seemed to…
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Una corea
Read more: Una coreaFor decades, the loss to North Korean endured as an Italian national embarrassment. On July 19, 1966, Italy faced lowly North Korea for a spot in the World Cup quarterfinals. At the time, Italy was enjoying the fruits of an economic boom that had reversed the country’s 1950s misfortunes. A…
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Sexy Shoes
Read more: Sexy ShoesGetting stilettos in Rome doesn’t come with sales clerks asking how your day has been so far. Just after Christmas, I spent an afternoon shopping with a hired Czech escort desperate to buy a pair of red stiletto shoes in Rome. She was in my keep for an afternoon, her…
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Dirge
Read more: DirgeThe first hard knocks of 1914 didn’t seem at an incipient death sentence. Attending a funeral at the start of summer feels like how a lantern looks, a timid encasing that can’t solve darkness. The sudden death of a friend is as shocking as it is a fantastic interruption to…
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Network
Read more: NetworkIn the 1970s, watching RAI1 and its news programs meant getting the government line. The Italian TV news world I found when I moved to Rome four decades ago was loud but linear. There were two established state networks, RAI1 and RAI2, with a third station added in 1979. The…
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