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Afghanistan: the Roller Coaster of History. Let Alexander the Great Be Our Lesson

Now the dark days are here again in Afghanistan and nothing could better illustrate the ups and downs of women’s rights in Afghanistan than what Zarifa Ghafari, one of the first female mayors in Afghanistan, said a few days ago: "I'm sitting here waiting for them to come. There is no one to help me or my family. I'm just sitting with them and my husband. And they will come for people like me and kill me." She rose to power, but now faces death. 
Andrew Cuomo

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Still Arrogant and Defiant, Cuomo Resigns and Drags His Daughters Into the Muck

When Cuomo signed the anti sexual harassment legislation on August 12, 2019, he proudly declared: “Let’s honor all the women who have endured this humiliation…Let’s honor the women who have had the courage to come forward to tell their stories – and let’s actually change things.” The day after, he sexually harassed Trooper #1. His daughters now deserved better....Unless they're completely blind and deaf then they, like others in their generation, can see, plain as day, that their father is a sexual harasser and a hypocrite who exploited them even in his resignation speech by pandering for sympathy.

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The Surfside Collapse: A Human Tragedy. Game Changer for Florida Real Estate?

While this is tragic on the human and individual level, there is little doubt that there are also wider implications for the Miami, and Florida in general, real estate market. The Champlain Tower collapse is a portent of a situation that will inevitably evolve in the short term and long-term prospects of the Miami real estate market. This is for a number of reasons; in the short-term it may be the fear factor, in the long-term, the consequences of the sea level rising.

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Ernest Hemingway: A Case of When the Art Is Brilliant but the Artist Is Flawed

Everyone admitted that his writing was brilliant, innovative, insightful of the human condition, and that he probably deserved the accolade of “best writer of the 20th century”, but as a human being he was flawed to the point where it interfered with the readers’ enjoyment of his work. In one extreme case, a graduate student so hated him that he wanted to visit Ketcham, Idaho, just to “dance on his grave.” This pretty much encapsulates Ernest Hemingway for the public and the critics. But of course, there's much more to it than that....

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A Boom in Cosmetic Surgery? Yes, Thanks to Fear, Vanity, Zoom and the Pandemic

Now that we’re on the cusp of getting back to normal from our year of Covid jail, we can look back and make sense of our unprecedented experiences. Strangely, the pandemic provided incentives for makeovers and self-improvement. For one thing gyms were closed, facials, manicures, pedicures and massages weren’t possible. In short, normal self-care and pampering were off limits for more than a year. One thing that this lack of pampering has led to is a boom in plastic surgery.

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Ann Goldstein: “Star Translator” Who Has Emerged from the Shadow of the Author

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of their time, and can easily come to sound dated…When you spend so much time in an author’s mind you almost can’t help feeling a kind of intimacy…. In the case of The Neapolitan Novels, I essentially spent four years not only with the author but with her characters. When I finished the third book, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, I felt bereft: I was so used to having the characters, the words, the rhythms of the sentences in my mind that my life seemed to be missing an important and active part… every work leaves some part of itself—a word, a phrase, a sensation—in me.”

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Buried Under a Mountain of Student Debt: But Do You Really Need a College Degree?

Educators know that college may not be for everyone. There are all kinds of aptitudes, skills, talents, and abilities—and above all, motivations and interests. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are all college dropouts. Sadly though, it’s politically incorrect to acknowledge that people are different and that there are many ways to fulfill your potential, find a rewarding occupation and earn a good living. Our young people have been blinded to the many possibilities that exist and we educators are too paralyzed by political correctness to give them sound and realistic advice.

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Trumpworld, the GOP and Personal Loyalty: Kiss the Ring Until it’s Tarnished

Moral baseness reached even greater depths when those like McConnell and Haley, who metaphorically had crawled in the mud almost to the finish line, did a complete turnaround when it became politically expedient to abandon the “leader” they had formerly admired, praised and enabled. It is especially McConnell though, who should inspire the greatest contempt because it was he who set the tone among the Republican legislators that enabled Trump to crash through one moral boundary after another. It was he who could have put the brakes on the moral slide.

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