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Frenchman’s burden
Read more: Frenchman’s burdenFor now, France has limited its attacks to air strikes. The macabre puppet theater called Mali has three characters, at least for now: little man, bigger man, biggest man. The former started the current imbroglio, the second kidnapped the plot, and the latter has now intervened to make things right,…
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Missoni
Read more: MissoniGino Severini: “Le Nord Sud,” 1912: Energy, movement, travel. Well-off Italians can’t do without their adventures. Not the middle class, who generally limit their forays to cruises or trips to France, or the winter-tan nouveau rich, who flocks to Seychelles or the Maldives to keep up with the latest Joneses.…
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Master class
Read more: Master classUkrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Putin: Game 1 to the Russian master. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is the last major-state autocrat, a cunning amoralist who mixes imperial flourish with Communist-era manipulation to create a tsarist mood that bypasses consensus and correctness. When his Machiavellian engine is firing on all cylinders, bullying…
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Timeless
Read more: TimelessLions, and tigers, and bears, and… dragons. Time standing still is for fables. The tower-bound princess remains frozen in her tower to ensure her handsome rescuer stays poised to save her. The dragon’s gills are permanently fire-puffed and the witch’s cauldron bubbles without end. Though boys and girls grow up,…
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Mad men
Read more: Mad menGettysburg: It has been more than 150 years since North America endured true scorched earth. Rarely mentioned in the American gun control debate is the absence of a collective national conscience about what weapons can produce, war. After a domestic massacre, what usually prevails is an understandable mishmash of emotional…
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Ushered
Read more: UsheredAusterity? An usher in Rome’s Senate building. Juxtaposition means how different things look in relation to each other. But put a hex on the word and the same shadow includes any number of random events. Let’s start with a neighborhood movie theater, mine, that went belly-up unannounced after its annual…
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