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Springboard
Read more: SpringboardThose surprised by the recent wave of Islamist protests need to remember back to 2005. President Barack Obama often labels American democracy as “messy.” It is indeed. But little is messier than life in the aftermath of nation-changing insurrections. The French Revolution produced wholesale slaughter the likes of which Europe…
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Pipe-tamer
Read more: Pipe-tamerThe plumber’s approach to water’s quashing combines the headstrong with the instinctive. The Rome plumber has a theory about global economic decay. Every few decades, masons in business suits gather conclave-like to determine the future of the world economy. The mood of these titans, and not the ebb and flow…
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Debt
Read more: DebtToo much spent, too little payback. Italy’s most disheartening economic news has less to do with euros and bonds spreads than how people behave with money. According to CGIA, a small but reliable business research group based outside Venice, the average Italian family debt has jumped more than 30 percent…
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Confidante
Read more: ConfidanteBetter the human touch… Much of my life has been spent as a confidante, a bystander collecting people’s thrills and heartbreaks, constantly borrowing and grafting from their spoken psalms. In my boyhood, adult men, most born at the beginning of the 20th century, narrated exotic yarn chock with spies, villains…
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I
Read more : IMuhammad Ali: Purveyor of a brazen “I,” which stuck. In a recent book review published by the New Yorker magazine, the critic James Wood cites an essay by Walter Benjamin on the significance of storytelling, quotes from it, and finally uses a three-word gambit — “I sometimes wonder…” — to introduce his…
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No man’s land
Read more: No man’s landPaterno: First the blanket, then removal. No nation takes punitive revisionism more seriously than the United States. Heroes who betray are household grime that the country’s collective product, its citizenry and advocates, exists to publicly scour away. Not even the Soviet Union, which airbrushed out disgraced figures from May Day…
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