If Santa can't even come up with a Doodle Bear you know there's trouble.
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Beasts and their burden
Yellow Journalism and the online world are acquiring more than kissing-cousin status.
74 marathons
Working to fit into Rome only to be "expelled" can come as a shock to the system.
Unfettered
Criticism of consumer culture once emerged from the least likely place: American pop music.
Pope John-Francis 1/2
As eloquent as Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio can sound, his papal playbook has a history.
Ash Friday
At the self-involved age of 10, even the assassination of a U.S. president can seem boring.
Café society
Thanksgiving once meant Arslan, Kaplan, Shasha, Assaf, Beyré and the two countesses.
Adesso basta
Foreign journalists have come up with an "Italian formula," and it doesn't work.
命運
Just what mìngyùn, or fate, lies China's future, no Westerner can pinpoint.
Nonno
There's no proof anyone serves lasagna in the afterlife, but if so, it'll be toweringly good.
Lotus-eaters
Read all about it — Italy, that is — but Luigi Barzini, Jr.'s 1964 vision still reigns supreme.
Ciao Lou
Lou Reed's loss makes a child of his times take stock of a great musician.