The Autumn of the Commandante

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I once had a cat named Dark Beauty.

He is my one and only.

You've been seasoned by wind, dusk and sunlight.

I have read the Twilight tetralogy.

The stillness, the dusk... these wild strawberries, this bowl of milk... your faces in the evening light.

He's my Vesper. My lovely boy. Aren't you, love?

And it is a body that has long intrigued people who've watched the planets.

She caught the night train and headed for Tokyo where her love is,

Wish I knew if she knew what I'm dreaming of

Wish I knew if he knew what I'm dreaming of

And then, in the middle of a sentence, at the very birth of twilight, I turned and looked down the street.

So this is one that they found, they called the Knife, the Carnival, the Boston Shuffler, Twilight.

Look at him, almost an old man... with his flabby stomach and spindly legs... bring, with doglike devotion, a fresh adept... who only a few nights ago was under his protection.

And probably the best part of this piece is at dusk and dawn when the twilight wedge has fallen and the ground's dark, but there's still the light above, bright above.

And that ephemeral nature of the hydrothermal vent community isn't really different from some of the areas that I've seen in 35 years of traveling around, making films.

As NATO enters its twilight years, the US should encourage the EU to grow into its global responsibilities. For, despite all their differences and mutual dissatisfactions, Europe and the US know that each is the best friend either is likely to have for the foreseeable future.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts. Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

You know, it seems at this stage in your life, you also very personally are in this state of confrontation with a sort of dissonant I suppose it's an electromagnetic force that somehow governs your Parkinson's and this creative force that is both the artist who is in the here and now and this sort of arc of your whole life.

When he appeared before the British parliament in July, Rupert Murdoch looked like an old man, remote and out of control. In old style family firms, there is a clear rule of succession that the oldest son takes over.

As Europe s leaders gather in Portugal to put the finishing touches on the new, slimmed down, Reform Treaty, it might be helpful if they all pretended that the last 50 years of European integration had never taken place. Let s then imagine what Europe needs to do to confront its most pressing challenges, especially if it were able to do so without the political constraints of 50 years of EU deal making and ramshackle institution building.