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@pontifex
Read more: @pontifexA tweet of the Holy Fathercan be … a spark of light, a pearl of wisdom, a drop of fresh water to rediscover the real meaning of Jesus. These are peculiar days for the Vatican. Long at home in the global spotlight, it now operates on the fringes of relevance.…
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Blind copy
Read more: Blind copyBersani, left, and Renzi: Room for debate. Few Italians know the details of their constitution. Italy’s father figure president and national intellectuals mention it from time to time but its relevance to the Italian social narrative and pop culture is negligible. Far sexier is the American version, whose dogma Hollywood…
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Yuan
Read more: YuanLooking for a picture can lead you to 11 lapdogs and Jack London. Here’s a little story about a model in Las Vegas, a middle-aged magazine editor in Rome, and an unexpected interloper, three strangers made to overlap casually in a century that indulges randomness as proof of life. The…
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Gaza
Read more: GazaScowls escalate, and the rest is history. I built my first fort in class enfantine, French nursery school. It nearly started a war. Our class had 13 students, 10 boys and three girls. In general the boys paid little attention to me. I was physically smaller and generally quiet. They preferred…
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La raccolta
Read more: La raccoltaBarrenness where colors were. In the early 1970s, a man named Giovanni Scanga began a stream of civil suits against my mother. He lived a floor below her and disliked her direct access to the condominium terrace, which she decorated with small vines and pretty plants. A trained lawyer who…
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Kats and dawgs
Read more: Kats and dawgsBurt or Snort or Yurt made the announcement that would change my life. Born into French, the first menace posed by the English language came in the form of the impending wet animal apocalypse. We’d barely arrived in America — I was six — and we lived in a place…
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