France
With Sarkozy, it's Gaullism through the looking glass, but deftly.
I can hear music
Buskers and summer go together, but the pickings are getting slimmer.
Twin-edged blade
Despite the hype, travel abroad can occasionally tell you how wrong you were.
Satanic verses
When commemorating 9/11 is its own reward, something is wrong with the picture.
Birth rights
"And have we given some thought to how we're going to raise these children?"
Dante’s winds
An appetite for calamity has turned hurricanes into celebrity superstars.
Run, baby, run
One man's effort to jog in Naples swiftly put Zen to shame. After which smooth sailing ended. Then came the dead dogs.
Marcel Albert
Tea Party aside, European dreams still often involve the American one.
Three-legged dog
Beware August, which can transform the incidental into the groundbreaking.
Senso civico
Italy's weak civic sense stems in part from thinking it's someone else's responsibility.
Woeful
If a recession is a form of anxiety, part of the cure is not surrendering to it.