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...What often happens is that you look into something as an amateur historian, or a journalist, and a couple of years later you find it's trickled down into the bit the novels come from. The unconscious. A different ventricle of the heart. Generically fiction is a more intimate form, so you're going to get - perhaps you hope to get - closer to the essence of it, the human essence. Because history is from above, and fiction's from below. It's closer in, more immediate...
...eldest son was murdered by one of the Protestant gangs that McCord proved how tough he really is - by taking on not only the killers, but also the police spymasters alleged to have shielded them from justice. McCord's decade-long odyssey that turned him from street fighter to amateur investigator was vindicated, Monday, when the official police ombudsman for Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, alleged that officers of the Special Branch of Britain's Royal Ulster Constabulary had knowingly colluded with Protestant paramilitaries responsible for at least a dozen murders, shielding them from justice. Her report echoes McCord...
DIED. Maureen Orcutt, 99, who played on four U.S. Curtis Cup teams and won more than 60 amateur golf championships, raising the profile of the women's sport during the 1930s, when no professional tour for women existed; in Durham, N.C. A World Golf Hall of Famer, she later wrote a column on golf for the New York Times, in which, as one of the nation's first female sportswriters, she tirelessly promoted the women's game...
...Gather other work-free friends and form an amateur marching band. Practice in the early morning...
...Which ignored country? For most moviegoers and award-show fans, we're already neck-deep in arcana. That's why the Oscars are now almost a post-coital event in movie industry self-congratulation. In the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there are just too many sciences. Amateur Oscar voters, at parties or in the office pool, are obliged to debate the merits, not to mention the meaning, of such categories as sound, editing and sound editing...