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Damages
Read more: DamagesVE Day in London. The end of World War II in Europe elicited a soothing fantasy: that the presence of atomic weapons would ironically thwart the prospect of another full-scale war. From now on in, uneasy Europe could focus on repair. With Communists entrenched in the East and capitalists in…
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iMind
Read more: iMindNow, unmanned shots are the norm. Boredom informed the adult goals of my 1960s boyhood. Ocean liner builder followed dinosaur expert, after which came fireman and jet fighter pilot. I went to airports to watch planes take off and land. Daydreams put me in the cockpit of an X-15 swooping…
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Go figure
Read more: Go figureRemnants of the Duomo in the town of Mirandola: Not unprepared. Language is a values system whose public usage shapes a society’s view of the day-to-day world. American English is declarative, brassy and bossy, all the more so since online chatter mauled the vernacular, putting a premium on “real time”…
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Rhymes With Congo
Read more: Rhymes With CongoLawsuits tied to property can take generations to resolve. Across the Tiber River from the palm-rich Baroque behemoth that houses the Italian cassation court is a stretch of buildings with walled-up windows and rusty pylons stuck spear-like into its façades. I first noticed the condemned buildings in 1970, when visiting…
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Old men
Read more: Old menAlexis Tsipras: The Coalition of the Radical Left, SYRIZA, is now a leading Greek force. The stubborn, charismatic leader of Greece’s anti-austerity left is a man named Alexis Tsipras. His political alignment, the Coalition of the Radical Left, or SYRIZA, topped the polls in recent elections and stands poised to…
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I am
Read more: I amTreaty of Rome signing, 1957: Intellectual ideas. You cannot herd people of different traditions and backgrounds into a happy playpen and give them a likable common name without eventually noticing differences in their table manners. So it is with the Europeans, a creation, at least in part, of French economic…
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