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The 60 percent solution
Not all results are created equal. Aspects of politics and sports suggest the way victory is [...]
Cool Whip resolutions
For the biblical Three Kings, the January epiphany represented the spreading of one religion's good news. [...]
The Mamma Mission
One of my missions when I visited Rome a few years ago was to find out [...]
Beasts of the Cretaceous
Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A [...]
If Beale Street Could Talk
“If Beale Street Could Talk,” the James Baldwin tale of young lovers doomed by an unfair imprisonment of [...]
Stan & Ollie
Films with a biographical slant are at their most poignant when the focus comes after the spotlight has [...]
“Wisdom born of pain”
After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear [...]
Revolution in the offing
It’s a question about something few ask, as if the subject were the holy grail: Will Rome soon [...]
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The 60 percent solution
Not all results are created equal. Aspects of politics and sports suggest the way victory is [...]
If Beale Street Could Talk
“If Beale Street Could Talk,” the James Baldwin tale of young lovers doomed by an unfair [...]
Stan & Ollie
Films with a biographical slant are at their most poignant when the focus comes after the [...]
Cool Whip resolutions
For the biblical Three Kings, the January epiphany represented the spreading of one religion's good news. [...]
The Mamma Mission
One of my missions when I visited Rome a few years ago was to find out [...]
“Wisdom born of pain”
After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it [...]
Beasts of the Cretaceous
Long before I started going blind, I was an only child in a capital city. A [...]
The lies expats tell
Never trust an expat. Expats are liars. We lie to ourselves. We lie to our families. [...]
Growing into dictatorship
Among life's most universal human experiences is to hear the older tell the younger about the [...]
Revolution in the offing
It’s a question about something few ask, as if the subject were the holy grail: Will [...]
The American crown
What emanated from this American president is not fascism, as some are wont to believe, but [...]