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Just days after the destruction of the World Trade Center, our pundits and politicians starting talking about “finding closure” and telling us to “get back to normal.” Reminds me, oddly, of a cartoon (probably from the New Yorker) I saw in the late 1950s. Somewhere by the road in a desert, an Arab has unrolled […] Rudy Giuliani's official portrait Face it: even for his staunchest supporters, Rudy Giuliani’s unstable behavior over the past two years has become increasingly embarrassing. Let’s leave aside his doctrinal, knee-jerk support for any behavior toward citizens of color by any New York City policeman, no matter how lethal, excessive, or otherwise irresponsible. Let’s ignore […] Once again I’m coming back from Europe — this time from a stint in Swizerland and Austria, on a flight from Paris to Newark, finding myself seated, improbably, next to two other Staten Islanders, Cristina and her mother Alida, from Tottenville, who appear to have survived three and half weeks of up-close-and-personal mother-daugher and extended-family […] |