Read MoreEarlier this week, I returned to Washington. D.C. for the first time in a long while. I lived in the District of Columbia and Arlington, Virginia (right across the Potomac River) for 12 years. So, my recent visit here rekindled some old memories. This is a continuation of the series which began yesterday.
Read MoreThe phone rang. This wasn’t a call I expected.
“Nolan, there’s an open seat tomorrow night in the game,” the voice said. “You want to come?”
“The game,” I asked? “You mean — THE GAME?”
“Yeah.”
“Deal me in!”
Read MoreBring up the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and reactions typically vary from indifference to fanaticism — with little territory in between.
Indeed, the chasm of constructive dialogue is currently so narrow, that merely reducing tension in this long-troubled region would be considered a historic success. That’s how low the bar has been set. Stopping all violence is probably next to impossible. Achieving everlasting peace between Jews and Arabs seems like a starry-eyed fantasy.
Read MoreLas Vegas is not known for the arts.
The closest one comes here to a world-class symphony orchestra or a Tony Award-winning musical is a time clock-punching seventy-five-minute show at one of the major casinos on the Vegas Strip. Even though the greater Las Vegas valley is home to more than a million residents, a bona fide home for cultural events and the arts did not exist — until now.
In central Bucharest, just a few days before the Romanian Revolution
Read MoreThis is the final article on the Romanian Revolution series, which focused on events leading up to Ceausescu’s downfall and the things I witnessed.
Read MorePart 4 of a multi-part series on the 1989 Romanian Revolution in Bucharest and the aftermath, including my experiences.
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Read MorePart 3 of a multi-part series on the 1989 Romanian Revolution in Bucharest and the aftermath, including my experiences.
Read MorePart 2 of a multi-part series on the 1989 Romanian Revolution in Bucharest and the aftermath, including my experiences.
Read MorePart 1 of a multi-part series on the 1989 Romanian Revolution in Bucharest and aftermath, including my experiences.
Read MoreThe mainstream media often get things notoriously wrong.
Consider the case of Mark Twain’s “death” being erroneously reported in the (now-defunct) New York Journal daily newspaper in 1897, eliciting his famous quote in response, “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”
It seems mainstream media haven’t learned much over the last 116 years. In recent months, major media have reported poker’s popularity is declining.
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