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Café society
Read more: Café societyThe twins insisted on sleeping in the same room — wife included. Forty years ago, my November visits to Rome meant spending considerable time with the Libohovas. The Albania of my mother’s side included Arslan, Kaplan, Shasha, Assaf, Beyré, whom I first met around a busy café table chock with…
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命運
Read more: 命運The image of a protestor halting tanks near Tiananmen Square in 1989 remains famous, but dissent is no longer “fashionable.” Ihave never been to China. It is still to me a place of fables and walls inhabited by hundreds of millions of people whose anonymous totals swell into the billions…
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Lotus-eaters
Read more: Lotus-eatersAuthor Luigi Barzini Jr. with his model and actress daughter Benedetta in garden of their country home in 1965. In recent weeks Italy has twice come under passing scrutiny in The New York Times. The first touch was a column by Frank Bruni, once that newspaper’s Italy correspondent, was a gentle…
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How cool is that?
Read more: How cool is that?Listening in because the technology exists to do so. Last summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel unwittingly got to the heart of eavesdropping allegations now unsettling relations between Europe and the United States. “Not everything that is technically doable,” she said, “should be done.” It was an eminently “old Europe” remark…
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Wolf!
Read more: Wolf!Shout first, then apologize… maybe. Social anthropology is the study of people and what they do when they band together. Cultural anthropology takes it a further step and probes how they organize themselves and what they choose to believe in. Both sciences focus on the evolved human tendency to substitute…
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Oh beautiful
Read more: Oh beautifulYou have to understand the impact these kinds of things have seen from the vantage point of those who grew up weaned on America… At lunch with a friend in the café of a Rome art museum. She orders a small plate of salad and mozzarella from the buffet. Rome…
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