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The West — and America in particular — is suffering from a culture of self-absorption and self-promotion

Don’t get old, but if you do, you can fool Father Time by training the smart way

The man who preceded Carter by one wrote the most wonderfully encouraging and flattering letter to me

With family on board, I decided to act responsibly and in a dignified manner

Sure, the Frogs were Frogs: xenophobic, ungenerous, suspicious and intellectually superior. But Paris was also full of foreigners, rich foreigners out to enjoy themselves