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The lives of others
Read more: The lives of othersBush signing the Patriot Act in 2001, later extended by Barack Obama. Second-term presidencies have long been susceptible to righteous overreach. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan struggled to deflect the effects of an elaborate arms-for-hostages deal tied to an Iranian regime Washington claimed to revile. Iran would secretly receive weapons…
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Rome doctor
Read more: Rome doctorEmotional intelligence is what doctoring is all about. Socrates, feeling unwell, chased mice. A distraction. Rousseau, feeling pain, wrote about the rights of man, hoping maybe someone might see them as his own. Copernicus, when afflicted with a tummy aches, dreamed achingly of Ptolemy, who dreamed back, leaving them both…
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Fudging the hurt
Read more: Fudging the hurtMarch 2013: Figures show the worst but most refuse not to show their best side. France, Spain, Greece and Italy are in recession. The Mediterranean flank of the Euro-zone is a cripple on paper. Daily news varies between the bad and the very bad. Tales of woe are a conversational…
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Deus in machina
Read more: Deus in machinaWorry, which leads to alarm, which yields two loud words: “Do something!” Choice is unhinging. Give web-addicts the chance to ponder their lives and they turn swiftly to health, which anecdotes suggest is in constant peril. The result is the replacement of low-keyed, stiff upper lip stubbornness with a pathological…
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Osmosis in the dark
Read more: Osmosis in the darkIf the simple is hard, imagine the hard. Amajor magazine once sent me to Milan to interview Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale. He talked graciously for hours until his starchy housekeeper scared him off to take his afternoon nap. His mood soured only once, when he growled that his most…
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May
Read more: MayIf only the “Princess May” had run aground in May, not August. Dislike of poetry can lead grumpier months to throw dirt at April. Why should the cruelest month hog the spotlight, particularly when May hosts fonder memories? Or so says May. Let me count its ways, or some. In…
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