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 | Finding the Berlin of The Good German
When I went to Berlin to research the background for The Good German, I found that the world of 1945 had seemingly vanished—bombed, reconstructed, buried under a modern city busily recreating itself yet again, its skyline a sea of building cranes (800...
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 | The Belgian at Baker Street: Did Hercule Poirot meet Sherlock Holmes?
I was fascinated by the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dame Agatha Christie were contemporaries. It made me wonder about Holmes and Poirot, and the relationship - if any - between them. A closer look at the lives of both Great Detectives revealed ...
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 | One Man's Poison: the Trial Of Karl Hopf
This is the O. J. Simpson case of early 20th century Germany: a world champion athlete and national hero who become a popular entertainer is charged with killing his wife. But in the case of fencing champion Karl Hopf, the fallen hero wasn't charged wit...
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 | Volunteer Envy
When I was thirty-four, I went back to the shelter where I'd once lived as a fifteen-year-old runaway. Now that I was a respectable thirtysomething yuppie, I wanted to revisit the part of my past that had always caused me the most pain; I also wanted to...
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 | Same Same But Different
After buzzing around Italy on a vintage Vespa in Vroom with a View I decided to take off on another madcap scooter adventure. This time, ten days through Vietnam's notorious Mekong Delta on a 1964 Vespa. “Same Same but Different” recounts the good t...
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 | The Lost Boy
This is a two part story. An Army captain goes out of his way to turn a young soldier from a path that, could not just destroy his Army career, but could ruin his life. The soldier is rehabilitated for a happy ending. The first sergeant then asks the ca...
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 | Up North
“You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em”—when it comes to family, most everyone can relate to this classic maxim. “Up North,” a short memoir piece about my summers spent with extended family in Northern Michigan, captures the idio...
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 | Faces
We have no photographs from the Revolutionary War, nothing to give us the look of those who served in what they called The Glorious Cause. With no photographs to take us there, and only paintings that make it look like a costume pageant, the Revolutiona...
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