The Year of the Protester (Tah...
THE FEBRUARY 4th ENTRY WILL BE DELAYED. MY APOLOGIES. TIME MAGAZINE announced last month that its 2011 person of the year was...
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Go for a Swim, Qaddafi
*This month [April] Fourth Night will be posted on the 14th instead of 4th **Scratch that. Due to tax day, which I just found out is...
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IN SIXTEEN DAYS, Barack Hussein Obama moves into the White House as the 44th president of the United States. The reference by full...
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See last month’s entry, The Virgin Palin, for a precursor to this posting IF ONE ACCEPTS the argument from The Virgin Palin...
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The first part of this essay is the January 4 posting THE NEXT MORNING we flew to Beijing. Upon landing it was the same routine as in...
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THE STEWARDESS SMILED and placed a folded napkin on my tray wrapped in two ribbons, one red, the other blue. I untied the knot and...
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HAROLD PINTER, the 2005 recipient of the Nobel Literature Prize, dedicated only a small portion of his December 8 acceptance speech to...
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Baghdatis at Cyprus-Finland Davis Cup match ’06. Added retroactively THE LAST half of January may prove to have been the...
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July 20 is an anniversary day in Cyprus. South of the Green Line, it is a day of sirens, memorials, cemetery services and hunger...
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