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South Africa world champs again Given the myriad ills that beset it, South Africa has little to brag about these days. And so this World Cup win will seem like a panacea – at least for a day or two. No one had ever won four men’s Rugby World Cup titles. And, even on a soggy Parisian… Read more.
Protesters have been setting the city of lights alight for years. They gave me cause to comment on their protests a year ago today in “The Yellow Vests: Paris Is Burning … Again,” December 6, 2018. Indeed, I am only commenting today because I cannot ignore this flaming symmetry: More than half a million demonstrators… Read more.
Chances are very good that, like virtually everyone else, you found some way to express solidarity with and sympathy for the people of Paris after Islamic terrorists launched deadly attacks there on Friday, killing 129. But chances are equally good that, like virtually everyone else, you did not do the same for the people of… Read more.
A shooting at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris has left at least 12 people dead [10 journalists and two policemen]… Witnesses report that two masked men entered the building with guns and open fired on staff of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly newspaper that had [drawn repeated threats for its caricatures of the… Read more.
