Michael Varga

Each of us follows a unique destiny, even as we know we will each wind up dead one day. Some people afflicted with...

Often the word “outlier” is used in cancer treatment to describe a patient who beats the odds and lives longer than expected. Those...

In the middle of an exam, my Chadian students suddenly stood up and fled my classroom. A minute before, they had seen through...

Two Americans were asking for a meeting with me. They had traveled from Alabama to Washington to lobby for more assistance to Lebanon,...

In 1995 at the G-7 Summit in Halifax (Canada), Secretary of State Warren Christopher was meeting with the Japanese finance minister. Somehow the...

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was cast in a production of the musical play, Guys & Dolls. I was...

In 1995 the doctors told me I would probably be dead of AIDS by April 1997. I had retired early from the U.S....

In 1986 I was the vice-consul at the American Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was my first assignment in the...

Some villagers brought medications with instructions in English, Russian, French or German. They could read none of these languages, so I translated them...

“How soon can you get out of Canada?” asked the administrative officer at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in October 1995 when I...