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Smiling Serpent Hillary; East Timor as the Next Kosovo

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The Smiling Serpent If you thought comedy was dead, you obviously haven’t heard of Strobe Talbott, the State Dept.’s factotum where Russian affairs are concerned. The Strobe used to be a Time hack, a man who took, and continues to take, himself extremely seriously. The reason I find him so funny is simple. There is
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The Seniors Tennis Circuit; Worshipping Mammon

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  Tennis Balls Along with “The Girls in their Summer Dresses,” “The Eighty-Yard Run” is my favorite Irwin Shaw short story. Christian Darling’s memory of his broken-field run as he walks along the grass where he played 15 years earlier is a magical moment in fiction. Although Darling’s run was only in practice, all the
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