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Though famously ambivalent about film adaptations of his work — to the degree of never...

Among the unusual finds in this unexpected coastal farmstead at Ramat Hasharon is a bronze chandelier chain more typical of churches

Among the unusual finds in this unexpected coastal farmstead at Ramat Hasharon is a bronze chandelier chain more typical of churches

UNESCO watching as Venice grapples with over-tourism COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 27 1of27People are backdropped by St. Mark's bell tower, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 17, 2021. After a 15-month pause in mass international travel, Venetians are contemplating how to welcome visitors back to the picture-postcard canals and Byzantine backdrops without suffering the indignities of crowds clogging its narrow alleyways, day-trippers perched on stoops to imbibe a panino and hordes of selfie-takers straining for a spot on the Rialto Bridge or in front of St. M...

TOM EATON | Seriously, comrades, at least spend your loot on some decent bling If our rulers are going to steal from us can they at least spend it on shiny kitsch rather than parochial mediocrity 02 June 2021 - 20:25 One day, when historians look back at the burning brown paper bag of dog turds that was the second decade of ANC rule, I hope they ask, at least in a footnote, why it was that corrupt cadres managed so consistently to spend their stolen loot on such mediocre stuff. When I was a child, I read with awe and wonder about the pleasure domes built by the great thieves of hi...