Reporting
… country is unavoidable, instructions on the department’s website recommend drafting a will before departure. Several … forty miles from Kabul, just as there were Taliban-run checkpoints in the province of Bamiyan, traditionally considered … country. Out of eight uncles on his father’s side, five had died in the war. Among his mother’s brothers, one has …
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… career as diplomat, policy-maker, and historian. In 1926 he joined the Foreign Service and was assigned to various … for flattery. These motivations enter at a thousand points into the final product of any political effort.” In … in making Machiavellian determinations about expediency. Walsh warned that such an ethic was appropriate for …
… today that even Beethoven did not meet with immediate comprehension. A modern reader may well be shocked by this … however, is more acute today for composers, critics, and audiences alike. We are living through the transition not just … of sound. “The world of words has shrunk,” George Steiner points out in Language and Silence . There are ever-larger …
Poetry
… Emergency Haying Coming home with the last load I ride standing on the tongue … from twisted shoulders, making two cords that suspend me on points of pain in the rising monoxide, recall that greater … herded to the gaunt fields of torture. Hands too bloodied cannot bear even the touch of air, the touch of love. I …
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