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Port Huron
Read more: Port HuronRussian novelist Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: “Is it right that man’s life and society’s activities have to be determined by material expansion?” Lean times for homeland eccentrics. Seattle’s own Amanda Knox is back in the fray with sometimes desperate autobiography. Why didn’t people see her for who she was, a girl “who…
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Of doors and men
Read more: Of doors and menA city’s whose beauty sometimes simply won’t quit. Watch Mr. Proietti work on the door. Or watch him watch. He’s pulled up a chair to monitor his assistant as he installs new locks. The assistant wears a golden earring. Mr. Proietti gesticulates, lifts himself, and pushes a hand drill into…
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Robin’s audition
Read more: Robin’s auditionA tomboyish redhead with short-cropped hair. Ionce got a complimentary subscription to Playboy magazine courtesy of an unknown prankster. I had just turned 16. My father throttled the subscription office with a phone call. He also dramatically discarded the copy in plain sight. He couldn’t have known I knew little about its…
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Dining with Kim
Read more: Dining with KimKim and his iMac: the end of the world as we know it. We may yet get around to mocking an era in which normal men, women, and children — not the Brahmins of privilege — trouped to a Rome dinner so enslaved by distracting devices that an evening among…
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See Dick run!
Read more: See Dick run!Dick and Jane come to Italy: “Run Dick Run. Run and see!” Freedom is not democracy. Democracy is a framework that nourishes freedom’s instincts. Transparency does not mean the abandonment of privacy. It is a framework that helps ensure privacy is used to put greater good ahead of self-interest. These…
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Paper lions
Read more: Paper lionsThe defenseless HMS Repulse was gone in a few hours after Japanese air attacks. Few in the American military liked what Billy Mitchell had to say, and he talked a lot. Stop building battleships, he said. Stop pretending the world depends on navies. Look up into the sky. That’s the…
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