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Good morning! Today is Thursday, the seventh of May, 2026 and this is the Thursday Morning Edition of GEORGE. One might be forgiven for feeling like a dervish in motion trying to follow the war in the Persian Gulf region, or perhaps like Dr. Otternschlag in the 1932 classic film, “Grand Hotel.” The film is set in a luxurious, fictionalized, and bustling Art Deco hotel in Berlin, Germany, during the early ...