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...power of the past: turning part of the Maze Prison, where 10 republican inmates starved themselves to death in 1981, into a museum; trying to build a hotel on the site of a recently demolished police station; perhaps erecting a visitors' center where back-packers can come to write messages on the peace line. "This wall's not coming down in the foreseeable future," says William Smyth, a former loyalist prisoner. "What we want to do is get something from it for the area." He thinks Belfast can only benefit by making money out of making peace...
...finished it on Dec. 31, a year and a day after Dunne died. "I had a sense that this book wasn't written at all," she says. "I just sort of sat down and typed it. It wasn't written in the sense that I usually write things." Didion's prose is usually buffed to a high polish, but with this book she deliberately made the writing less smooth, taking out the transitions ("I was sort of crazy, so transitions really didn't figure") and waving off copy editors to keep it feeling choppy, unpolished, unmediated. "I really thought that...
...loss of that clarity, allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief. But the book also reproduces, in its formal progression from those first raw, frenzied impressions to a more composed account of mourning, Didion's recovery. She literally wrote herself back to sanity. "Writing is the only way I've ever gained clarity," she says. "I don't go through life with a lot of clear-formed thoughts. It's not till I sit down and write that I really know what I think...
...previously signed waiver that Miller considered "coerced." That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause. "He didn't call. He didn't write," said Abrams on MSNBC. After a while, "you draw certain conclusions...
...following pieces provide perspectives on different types of understanding, from domestic rural poverty to global poverty, from intolerance to opportunity. Their writers were given no criteria other than to write about poverty. Even the diversity of their opinions only touches the surface of true understanding...