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A Measure of History: Aperitifs To Write Home About
“Milano-Torino is a 199-km-long world-class cycling race, one of the fastest on the circuit; the winner clocks the distance between the two northern Italian cities at an average pace of 45 km per…
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The Measure of Interest
“How do you measure something as nebulous as interestingness, and indeed, from the point of view not of the individual but of the community? Although the set of 500 photos varies from day…
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House Rules: In Munich, Germany & Athens, Greece
“I actually don’t think anyone—anywhere—needs these rules in order to conduct him- or herself civilly in a train station. Most people wouldn’t think of lying down in an access tunnel or spray-painting the…
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Crisis Dues (The Wages of Austerity, in Greece)
“Today at work I learned my pay was being cut by 25 percent. The CEO had gathered the entire staff in the large conference hall and made the announcement. He said it was…
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Now & Then: Greece’s Present Tense of Loss
“Markaris was talking instead about a set of values, including the importance of living in solidarity with others in community, which enabled Greeks for centuries to live, as philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin…
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Poetic Voice
Breach of Close by Stefanos Christoforos “. . . we have so little talent for conservation when we are young. We have not yet experienced the irrevocability of loss or realized the sad…