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Five recent deaths we should have mourned (and we didn’t)

When the brouhaha for the death of Steve Jobs just settled, here in Italy we are just ending another famous-guy-dies frenzy in the media: this time, a young guy who was particularly good at going in circles on top of a motorbike seems to have become the New National Hero to mourn -with people kludging

We will again open this container of wisdom that has been left in our care

The proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact, I’ve got a bizarre fondness, recently, for the Tlingit, a population of natives of southern Alaska. They’re not Eskimo and they’re not classical American Indians either: something in between and