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The scene in Rebibbia had a symbolic splendor. It shone in lovely contrast to what the world has witnessed lately in the news. For some time, a suspicion has taken hold that the trajectory of history is descendant, that the world moves from disorder to greater disorder, toward darkness-or...
After a checkered past, the cruise missile's time has come. A descendant of Germany's V-I buzz bomb, the cruise proved ineffective when first tested by the U.S. in the 1950s. One study reported. "The average miss distance was over 1000 miles. At least one came down in...
So spoke Korres, spiritual descendant of Phidias, and so ended the council in Athens, most properly as it seemed to all, for it is best to go slowly in matters so weighty. That way one guards against error and shows respect for the past, the future and the protector of...
In the future, any descendant of Jonathan Livingston Seagull's in the Toronto area will have to be mighty gullible to believe that diamonds are a gull's best friend.
The full title of the shogun, head of a military oligarchy that had established itself in the 12th century, was "barbarian-subduing generalissimo," and now he had proved helpless. Angry nationalists rallied around the idea of overthrowing the disgraced shogunate and restoring direct rule by the Emperor, descendant of the...