How a celebrated golf course architect served as a confidential diplomatic troubleshooter for four US presidents.
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A. Craig Copetas is a former Staff Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, Senior Writer at Bloomberg News and author of the nonfiction books Metal ... Men, Bear Hunting with the Politburo and Mona Lisa's Pajamas. He lives in Paris.
How a celebrated golf course architect served as a confidential diplomatic troubleshooter for four US presidents.
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As a nuclear crisis loomed, the antics of a cartoon moose and squirrel captured American imaginations.
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Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin the modern-day equivalent of sneezing powder and whoopee cushions?
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Was it Nixon’s decision to end military conscription in 1973 that allowed America’s latest war to continue for 20 years?
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In his column recalling past interviews, reporter A Craig Copetas revisits conversations with the American novelist.
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What Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac could teach us in an age of social media and cancel culture.
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What an Iraqi baker and a Syrian ice cream maker could teach Ben & Jerry.
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In his column recalling past interviews, A. Craig Copetas describes an encounter with the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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‘The IOC are masters of the universe,’ he said. But in Tokyo it faces a villain too powerful to overcome with pageantry.
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