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Two sides
Read more: Two sidesHonoring injured Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. ATaliban gunman recently boarded a bus in rural Pakistan and fired a bullet into the head of a 14-year-old girl who had written diary-style dispatches for the BBC bemoaning the Islamic group’s stern ban on female education. For the Taliban, impatient with shadings, the…
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Feel for the palm
Read more: Feel for the palmBe as quiet as possible when you cough, sneeze, sigh, or yawn. Refrain from speaking when yawning; cover your face with your handkerchief and turn aside, George Washington. Growing up meant learning manners. Rules change over time, but my fossil-hunting boyhood seemed to resist its passage. Self-consciousness, now a measure…
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Hubbub
Read more: HubbubNixon-Kennedy, 1960: But men were uneasy but only Nixon broke a sweat. American politics has always invited hyperbole. Reaching distracted millions means establishing and repeating sentimental generalizations about complex subjects in hopes the trimmings of party loyalty and faddish attraction will do the rest. Few read attentively (except perhaps the…
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Pollice verso
Read more: Pollice versoThe Atlantic magazine notion of the debates may have been too kind. Aradio tidbit, a newscaster quote, and a Rome anecdote all come to mind in the aftermath of the first U.S. presidential debate, in which Republican challenger Mitt Romney visibly got the better of incumbent President Barack Obama. Together,…
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iLine
Read more: iLineIrony of ironies: feeding iPhone-waiting customers in line in London. Before consumerism, lines of people — queues the British call them — were signs of literal hunger. There were breadlines, soup lines, lines to collect stamps to help with essential purchases. There were also emergency lines, for tickets out of…
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Flemish Cap
Read more: Flemish CapWhat was once done dozens of times a year was long ago reduced to a trickle. Leave behind a bungled love affair and what you get is rust: Big ships with older passengers and mostly Filipino crewmen crammed into an eight-year-old waterborne high-rise moving slowly over the North Atlantic toward…
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