The king and queen who saved the British monarchy
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A well-researched new biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Christopher Sandford
Sunday
Tuesday
Watching baseball as Seattle crumbles
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The area around the Mariners’ ballpark is characterized by an intense squalor
Wednesday
When Salvador Dalí met Alice Cooper
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‘All of a sudden this troupe of five androgynous midgets in pink chiffon floated in’
Wednesday
A century of Bing Crosby
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In the spring of 1923 in Spokane, Washington, you might have stumbled upon a young jug-eared drummer…
Saturday
The earthquake that will devastate Seattle
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What happened in Turkey is a sign of what’s to come in the Pacific Northwest
Sunday
Jeff Beck was that good
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The brilliant guitarist rejected the mainstream and never kept still musically
Monday
How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud
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It began with a séance…
Tuesday
The spy novelist who became an Irish nationalist
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Remembering Erskine Childers 100 years later
Fifty years ago, D.B. Cooper changed air travel forever
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The authorities may not have brought Cooper to book, but they wasted little time in punishing the rest of us
Thursday
Patty Murray makes an anguished face
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The Democrat is in the electoral fight of her life, and surely democracy itself is at stake
Saturday
Remembering Mussolini’s March on Rome
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‘Fascist’ has become a term of abuse but nothing today measures up to Il Duce
Wednesday
How the British helped JFK navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The special relationship blossomed during a dangerous time
Wednesday
Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer’s fall from grace
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It was both acute and irreversible
Thursday
Patty Murray is no longer endearing
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Once the Washington senator had a comic touch but now she’s just embarrassing
Saturday
My night with the Rolling Stones
That’s another prime minister the Rolling Stones have outlasted. When the band first plugged in under that name at London’s Marquee Club on July 12, 1962, Harold Macmillan was in No. 10 dealing with the ‘little local difficulty’ of sacking a third of his cabinet. Then came Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Wilson, Ted Heath, Wilson again,
Monday
Stop enabling the crisis junkies
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Randomly scanning the news is enough to send anyone running for a therapist
Monday
Are drive-by shooters victims of ‘systemic racism’?
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One member of the Washington state assembly thinks so
Tuesday
Nick Kristof and a tale of two Oregons
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The former New York Times columnist wants to be governor. But why?
Monday
The Rolling Stones cancel themselves
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The group is canceling a ‘problematic’ hit, but that could sum up half their repertoire
Thursday
The Sting paradox
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Just because he detected the modern tendency to confuse celebrity with profundity doesn’t mean he necessarily avoided it
