Nixon’s final years as president sucked for Nixon. As the Watergate scandal intensified, the president can hardly be blamed for having reached for a drink. But apparently, the situation was so bad that when Nixon fell victim to growing bouts of insomnia and fits of drunken rage, some Washington insiders started taking bets on when […]
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The general stood on the battlefield before his army. He was draped in lion skin with a club in hand. Under a beaming sun touched by the shadows of his 100 thousand men, enemy troops could be forgiven for mistaking him as Hercules incarnate. His men outnumbered 3 to 1 — the general, already celebrated in song as a six-time Olympic…
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If you walk to the top of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC, up the grandiose wood spiral…
Almost 104 years ago today, Ottoman forces shattered a young Armenian girl’s life when they entered her…
October, late Autumn in Afghanistan, and the mountains that surround – in fact seem almost to…
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On free afternoons, I write movies about the Middle East. Particularly, the Middle East as it existed…