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Mussolini’s Last WordsAt ten minutes past four on the afternoon of April 28, 1945, a plumber named Moretti... |
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Bailouts and KnockoutsGSTAAD—OK, sports fans! The Davos irrelevance is over, Gstaad is covered with the... |
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A Tale of Two WilsonsEdmund Wilson was America’s premier man of letters during the middle of the 20th... |
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Putting Gatsby to ShameGSTAAD—“Mick Flick Invites you to the Roaring Twenties,” read the black-and-white... |
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The Sin of Avoiding PleasureGSTAAD—By the time you read this it will be mid-January and all your New Year’s... |
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Skiing Downhill Into The Lost DecadeGSTAAD—For a cultural pessimist such as myself, things have never looked rosier. With... |
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Thirty-Five Years of SpectatingSeeing as how man didn’t emerge from the caves until something like 6,000 years ago,... |
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Receiving Oral at DelphiI flew to Delphi to consult with the oracle, and the old girl had a lot to say about... |
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Here’s a Toast Before We’re All ToastMy end-of-the-year Christmas party was the best yet. The festivities began at 10PM and... |
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The Resurrection of ChristmasLet’s start with the bad news: In honor of China’s economic rise, a Chinese-looking... |
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The Great Eurozone Bestiality PartyMost of us Westerners are a happy bunch despite our countries being wracked by debt,... |
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Nixon’s YodaIn a recent New York Times book review, Henry Kissinger says that according to Dean... |
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My Wild Week and Wunderbar WeekendNEW YORK—I had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week—so good, it took a weekend... |
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Once Upon a Time on the RivieraA recent libel case won by Lady Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore of James Bond fame,... |
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