Kilauea is blowing her top. These last weeks we have witnessed, from afar, a pyrotechnic extravaganza on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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5/17/18
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He is the boogeyman in our worst nightmares. Kim Jong-un, absolute ruler, Dear Leader and beloved father of North Korea, is the 30-something tyrant who inherited his seat of power . . .
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5/10/18
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If the White House calls, just hang up. Put down the phone, run out of the house as if your hair were on fire, change your number and move to a remote town in Saskatchewan . . .
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5/3/18
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Does the latest sexist outrage mean we have to start burning our bras again?
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4/27/18
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I’m writing about books because my mother is dying and I can’t write about that. I know that my sense of myself, my personal latitude and longitude, are about to change in the coming weeks.
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4/20/18
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Have you seen the Esurance commercial with the two white-haired older women? One suggests the other doesn’t “get” Facebook, and the insulted woman says, “I unfriend you.”
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4/12/18
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They emerged from the ashes of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school massacre on Feb. 14. They tended their wounds, reached out to one another for comfort, and somehow drew purpose and energy from the trauma they had survived.
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4/5/18
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A big tell in life is how people feel about their birthdays. In recent years I’ve been feeling quite good about mine, shocking as they are in number and perceived frequency. Having had one recently . . .
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3/30/18
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Who ever dreamed that the only honest broker in the story of the Trump administration would be the porn star who once considered a run for the Senate? I mean, just add another ring to the political circus . . .
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3/23/18
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Ira Levin imagined it in 1976. The novelist wrote “The Boys from Brazil,” fictionalizing the story of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele. In Levin’s book, which became a blockbuster movie . . .
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3/16/18
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