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Anne Applebaum

  • ... nothing happens in August — except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

    • Anne Applebaum,
    • in The Washington Post ()

Anne Applebaum, U.S. journalist, writer

(1964)