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Like so many of the adventures recounted in their anthologies of fairy tales, the Grimm brothers’ journey to lasting fame might never have begun had they not suffered a striking reversal of fortune in childhood.

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Trump’s threats to take control of the Panama Canal have stirred the memories of the Zone’s former American residents—and precipitated a struggle over the country’s sovereignty.

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In the Zone | Miriam Pensack, Willa Glickman | The New York Review of Books

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