The death of the Portuguese writer José Saramago has just been announced. As he won the Nobel Prize in 1998 and had in recent years acquired a status something like that of a secular seer we are in for a couple of days in which the media will carry eulogies praising his humanity and intelligence.
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This is a guest post by David Adler.
“My children were crying on top of my wife’s body.” That’s one of many quotes from survivors featured in “Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary narrated by Fareed Zakaria. It’s solidly in the running for the most profoundly disturbing hour of television I’ve ever seen.
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A street event jointly organized by the government of the city of Buenos Aires and the Israeli embassy to celebrate the 61st anniversary of Israel’s foundation was yesterday disrupted by a gang of 15 or 20 people who emerged from a nearby subway station and laid into members of the public with clubs, chains and nunchakus.
