All signs indicate that, in one fashion or another, our
combative next president will perpetuate the wars he’s inheriting. Trump may
fancy that, as a veteran of Celebrity Apprentice (but not of
military service), he possesses a special knack for spotting the next Grant or
Sherman. But acting on that impulse will merely replenish the swamp in the
Greater Middle East along with the one in Washington. And soon enough, those
who elected him with expectations of seeing the much-despised establishment
dismantled will realize that they’ve been had.
The big loss in music this week was that of Zakir Hussain, dead at 73. I
had a few chances to see the great tabla player here and there but never
did. Si...
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