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Papoose
Read more: PapooseMother and papoose. Iwas born papoose; a chunk of flab soon cottoned into a husk of white. My tiny splayed hands looked like the overbite of an extinct creature. Why anyone would smile at such a thing I don’t know. Alarmed at the flattery, I squealed constantly. Or so I…
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Challenged
Read more: ChallengedThe youth unemployment figures may be high, but they were just as high in the 1990s. Last fall, then-Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini outlined a few low maintenance ideas to help sooth Italy’s chronically high youth unemployment rate. First, high schools and colleges should publish online student curricula and furnish them…
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He lies!
Read more: He lies!A December 2011 ad by gun company USAAmmo warned of impending gun control laws and compared President Obama to Hitler and Stalin. An American friend of mine hates Barack Obama. In fairness he disliked him four years ago. Since then the feeling has decayed into irrationality. Politics and constructive criticism…
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Vai terrone!
Read more: Vai terrone!Commandante Non Mollare, or “Hang Tough Captain” Under the dirty dermis of the ship-to-shore telephone call that has turned the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster into a soap opera is an ethnic and regional wart as old as Italy and as ugly as the disaster itself. First let’s set the…
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Gashed Concordia
Read more: Gashed ConcordiaMuch too close… Steering a massive cruise ship anywhere near rocky shoals is a very bad idea. It is also a wonderful piece of voyeurism: Land and sea seem to coalesce until the mighty liner skirts harm’s way, or fails to. Cruise ship travel depends on merging luxury hotel standards…
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a, e, i, o, u
Read more: a, e, i, o, uGive each letter the character it deserves. My penmanship teacher worried about my hand’s mistreatment of the letter “o.” My “o” looked like a deflated balloon, or so she said. Be firmer, she insisted. My “e” fared little better. In the word “eager” my first “e” seemed interested only in…
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