Marlow’s Listener

Couldn’t Mecca, I asked the royals, be opened to non-Muslims during the off-season? The phrase off-season, as it turns out, is not conducive to an interfaith dialogue.

In Your Hands Adam Clayton Powell

This vile, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an amusement park thrill ride, rising from the cool Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.

Taurus muscle car? As in 0-60 in 5.2?

One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news. Newspaper writers are [...]

We in the Lounge, for example, while not admonished  or even encouraged to use shall as a future marker, were given to understand that it was the proper form in the first person

We live in a world where I feel out of place. The one that I knew, that I loved, had 1.5 billion inhabitants. The world today is made up of six billion humans. It is no longer mine”

Instead, he inadvertently opened the Berlin Wall

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