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“The Americans”: Hostility between two world powers in new episode
March 25, 2016We return to larger considerations and smaller links in this drama between Philip and Elizabeth, and their loving, yet emotionally torn daughter.
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A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
March 25, 2016It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.
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Henry David Thoreau: Bright glows the pond
March 24, 2016Like all giants of the past, Henry David Thoreau writes in a different period of time but speaks to us today.
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: Hundreds gather in solidarity with workers
March 24, 2016New Yorkers have long assembled to commemorate the anniversary of one of the greatest travesties in United States labor history.
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Hilarity and tragedy: The Jewish holiday of Purim 5776/2016
March 23, 2016Purim festivities emphasize the historic struggle of a people for survival and pride, and this takeaway from the holiday can't be forgotten.
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