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The Faces of Tahrir Square
… cups of tea and coriander-spiced coffee. Egyptians are also famous jokers, a cultural attribute that took on a … had reached a point of exhaustion where even sleep had become impossible. That’s why, when I came back to Cairo to … crowd into a frenzy. It was the Burning Man of civil disobedience, and there was no Egyptian in the square who had ever …
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Charlie Don’t Surf
… intermodal containers, the red blood cells of global commerce, are stacked a hundred feet high on the deck. The … ship is pulled forward by towlines attached to mulas, the diesel engines that long ago replaced actual mules in the … offered up. When I woke in the morning, the driftwood coals still smoldered in the sand, but Andrew was gone. I …
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The Moscow Protests, Part 2
… of his bushy nylon beard. The demonstration was coming to an end, and another Ded Moroz appeared on stage to … be hard to find; maps were posted and reposted on numerous websites. In reality, it was impossible to get lost: a flood … protest was held, is completely flat, with no vantage points. On one side, the avenue is framed by semicircular …
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A Strange and Extraordinary Week
… The great historian and civil-rights activist Howard Zinn died on Wednesday at the age of 87; so too did the author  … J.D. Salinger , a phantom for decades, passed away, and the coming years surely will bring rafts of rumor, speculation, … off a good chunk of its corporate staff . And there were false births and false deaths, endings or beginnings not …
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A Kingdom for a Horse
… to this hard, semi-arid land. Horse milk and horsemeat were dietary staples, and skill on horseback was crucial for … a weathered, mustached man named Kulzhatayev Maulebkazi, points in astonishment. “You see?” he says. “You see this … Union Nursultan Nazarbayev Taldykorgan Derbis Baidildanov 26-35 By Will Boast Illustrations by Guy Stauber …
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Line in the Sand
… a few miles of this hill. “No matter how many times I come up here,” he said, “it just never gets old.” East of … His mother lives with him in the farmhouse, but his father died eighteen years ago, and his five siblings chose … where the re-​route will cross (even though the EPA’s website explains that those areas have soils that are almost …
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