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Dressed to kill
Read more: Dressed to killL’Wren Scott. The scope and intensity of true privacy is ferocious, more so even than vanity. It is, or can be, asphyxiating. True privacy deletes all around it while fooling the social world into thinking outside ingredients play a decisive role in the primacy of the inner mind, which they…
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Flight 370
Read more: Flight 370In 2009, after several false leads, the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 was finally found after five days. Several years ago an American professional basketball player of Taiwanese descent enjoying a hugely successful season in New York City had a number of bad nights. When a local tabloid ran…
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Lights, camera, crisis
Read more: Lights, camera, crisisShoot first; build passion; distribute the image. The abiding back-and-forth over Ukraine is helping to flesh out how global crisis is viewed, absorbed and transmitted in a post-Sept. 11, 21st-century West increasingly formed by and subservient to the language, tone and texture of instant communication and participatory “journalism.” Three thoughts…
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Jack R. Payton
Read more: Jack R. PaytonJack Payon and the author in the Via Della Dataria offices of United Press International, which long ago closed its Rome bureau. The man who gave me my first break in mainstream journalism is dead. I found this out by chance, stumbling on his name — Jack R. Payton —…
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Kiev porn
Read more: Kiev pornMedieval war colors in Kiev. We are poised between two worlds. One is feral, primal, and ripe for sudden fury; another knows this rawness and blocks it through reason, collective morality, and the rule of law. Yet reason’s sheaf can fray, leaving the rational in harm’s way. Verbal abuse is…
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On the make
Read more: On the makeMatteo Renzi: the most boyish-looking of plotters. Formalities aside, Italy’s new prime minister is 39-year-old former Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi, the rental unit’s 27th new face since 1946 and its fourth occupant in three years. Fans of youth and charisma will applaud his emergence, and perhaps rightly so. But they…
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