The Biker’s Indignity: A...
FOR BIG DON K’ SHAYNE CLICK HERE I intended this post to be Big Don K’ Shayne-related but the project — a...
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Es Complicado
or “The Convoluted Psyche of the Buenos Aires Porteño” THE POLISH JOURNALIST Ryszard Kapuscinski opens The Shadow of the Sun,...
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I shot the following photos and video at the 2010 Gaucho Festival in the Argentina pampas town of San Antonio de Areco on November...
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IN HIS EPONYMOUS collection of writings, the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu claims to have once dreamt of being a butterfly, entirely...
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For Part I of Lament for Michael Kilburn click here THE UK has an efficient rail system with comfortable high-speed trains that run...
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ANYONE who regularly reads an English-language newspaper in a former British colony-where there are inevitably large numbers of...
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LAST SEPTEMBER I found myself in the bizarre situation of once again being—and I still can’t say it without an unsettling jolt of...
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IN JULY I flew into Nairobi to write a series of newspaper and magazine articles on the Orthodox Archbishop of Kenya. Towards the end...
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I HAVE attended a half dozen or so European Union press events over the past year, most of which have taken place in Brussels, and I...
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