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Talkin’ bout a…
Read more: Talkin’ bout a…Meet real revolution: Robespierre executes the executioner when there’s no one left in France. According to Webster’s, a revolution is most aptly described as an event that yields “sudden, radical, or complete change.” Of the big three, “complete change” is the most telling. The French Revolution fits revolutionary criteria because…
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Gagging
Read more: GaggingShifting numbers. In 2008, the West’s favorite bogeyman, Silvio Berlusconi, delivered on a campaign pledge by abolishing property taxes on first homes, a dubious choice in terms of national revenue. Italians had long paid modest first home levies, far lower than most of their European counterparts. But since first homes…
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Encore
Read more: EncoreGiscard: The first-round winner was considered aristocratic and aloof. The French president was haughty, or so we were told. In Italy to visit his aging counterpart, he was late by an hour to his Rome press conference but failed to apologize. This, said my veteran colleague, was typical. “He feels…
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Alda
Read more: AldaI hated the scheme but I understood its maddening adult logic. In recent years, good parenting has become the star of its own show. It inspires books, stories, anecdotes, admonishments and sweeping e-lore. Children are the sum of adult worth, the only icons adults can worship skepticism-free. That children should…
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Marvelous
Read more: MarvelousObama: The socialist pox endures. Some concepts are too difficult to explain in everyday speech. Look up Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl and you’ll find a whirligig of lofty but arcane words — eidetic, ontological, transphenomenal. What non-philosophers know of Sartre is usually limited to the one-size-fits-all “Hell is other people,” a…
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WWII
Read more: WWIIIn the real World War II, an American officer and a French Resistance fighter in a street battle with German occupation forces in August 1944 in an AP shot. World War II is dead, long live WWII. An English-language culture dependent on abbreviations and infatuated with the insider quivering of…
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