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"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."
    --Robert Musil

Between 1945 and 1947 the United States underwent perhaps the most breathtaking ideological transformation in its history.

People concerned about the US-led NATO war against Yugoslavia find much to reflect upon in the Vietnam experience.

Knowledge of Khrushchev's reaction cited above is personal; he was the author's grandfather.

Better late than never?

The saga of the gold looted by the Nazis and concealed or converted by greedy neutrals is very far from finished.

Regardless of its domestic implications, Operation Desert Fox is a spectacular but dangerous gesture, a smokescreen to cover for the lack of a comprehensible or workable policy toward Iraq.

On August 20 last, President Clinton personally ordered the leveling of the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant on the outskirts of Khartoum.

One of the first signs of old age, I'm told, is when a young woman offers you her seat on a bus (and the next stage, presumably, is when you accept it).