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Sunday was the first anniversary of the 9.0 earthquake off the east coast of Japan that produced the 45-foot-high tidal wave that hit Fukushima Prefecture. Twenty thousand ...
As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society's national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of "America and Her Detractors," I wondered whether ...
Get in line, all ye racists"they have a pill for you now. Last week, several supposedly respectable websites erupted in a blinding sunshower of bigot-hating joy at a recent ...
Leaning over the bar in London's Union Jack Club drinking rum, I stood on legs of flesh and bone. The soldier next to me stood on legs of plastic and metal. He"d lost three ...
When I was 13 I was looking at an old Penthouse out behind school and Dale Aiken said, "This is nothing. When you"re married, you get to see your wife's tits anytime you ...
Briefly home from boarding school back in 1951, I went to a bar with a phony draft card, ordered a beer, and watched Rocky Marciano knock out my idol Joe Louis. Joe was 37 and ...
I’ll admit it: I was apprehensive about the chemo. Some decades ago a female relative of mine"not long married, infant daughter"was diagnosed with cancer and ...
The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival awards, the Best Foreign ...
Not much is happening in the celebrity gutter this week unless you count the big pregnancy rumors from Snooki of Jersey Shore fame. Her boyfriend Jionni (nice spelling) LaValle is ...
There are over seven thousand dead in Syria now. What are the Syrian soldiers thinking? The last post Marie Colvin made before her death tells us they"re "shelling a city ...
They were completely fake, they were mostly unlovable, other people wrote their songs"and they were still better than The Beatles. I don"t give The Monkees much thought, ...
Nomophobia, or "no-mobile-phobia," sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...
GSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in the heights. A batallion of wispy white clouds hides behind the surrounding mountains—a ...
It's stressful to be hated. It goes against our instincts. We want to be loved. But Andrew Breitbart was ...
A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally ...
The white/black test-score gap has been in the news since the 1960s, yet much like Mark Twain supposedly said about the weather, despite all the talk, nobody seems able to do much ...