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Steve Jobs
Read more: Steve JobsJobs in 2005: “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” The aptest comment on the death of Apple’s Steve Jobs may have been a one-line tribute published among thousands of others on The New York Times website. It read: “I didn’t even know the man and…
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Eyes for him
Read more: Eyes for himA photo in a vase… The girl that got away lived around the block. This was a long time ago, which is to say well before Greece got in trouble with the European Union. There was in fact no European Union, in its stead a coin called the Drachma and…
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395. Happy days
Read more: 395. Happy daysPanic as showtime. Homer and Shakespeare rightly situated high drama in the precincts of envy, greed and melancholy. Odysseus was a spoiled warrior amid yes-men and Hamlet an angst-ridden prince at the mercy of mood swings. Their soliloquies and temper tantrums unsettled families, minions and states. But the two writers…
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Congratulations!
Read more: Congratulations!Italy: A cultural fundamentally defined by waiting. In 1977, the chief Reuters correspondent in Rome wrote a charming guest piece for the International Herald Tribune about his day-to-day life in Rome, capital of nonsense. He began with politics but ended with clocks. He rightly observed that the city’s street clocks, if they…
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Omega
Read more: OmegaTwo frames, above and below, from Michael Pacher’s 15th-century “Saint Augustine and the Devil.” Hell has no virgins but it does have pioneers, a best and brightest whose pecking order is established based on ambition and success. If honoring the dead conforms to a collectively assuaging moral code, honoring the…
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Mañana
Read more: MañanaWeaned on Tintin, I mostly gurgled and sighed. When I first arrived in the United States I was a concave five-year-old who spoke no English. The limited vocabulary I had I’d learned from my American father and my French-speaking Polish mother. One spoke to me in English, which sounded like…
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