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Indeed, we have to ask whether the message of World Trade Center - that an evil action can provoke an opposite and heroic reaction - is a central or even appropriate message to take from the events of 9/11. Surely the larger lesson learned from that day is that other men, all...
Proust, genius as he may have been, was a bit of a whackjob; even those who have devoted their lives to the study of his literary leviathan have to take him with a tiny grain of salt. There is a website that poses the challenge of summarizing In Search of...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—I love the Fung Wah Bus.You’d find that hard to believe if you knew my history with the discount New York-to-Boston bus line. I’ve spent an entire trip sitting in front of a drug dealer who...
I was the subject of a much milder form of it, every time I flew out of Ben Gurion. Security officials, plainly, are charged with determining whether fliers are Jewish are not. My name could go either way. The Israelis know it's rude by Western standards to come right...
On another occasion, though, I decided I wouldn't play the game. If the agent wouldn't come right out and ask me, I wasn't going to let him know whether I was Jewish or not. I answered every question truthfully but in a way that gave nothing away...