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...single state, but the court's distaste for the idea of solitary was clear. "The justices saw it as a form of what some people now call no-touch torture," says Alfred W. McCoy, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of the book A Question of Torture. "It sends prisoners in one of two directions: catatonia or rage...
Caroline Kennedy, an attorney and author, is vice chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools. To learn more about supporting those who make a difference, visit time.com/powerofone
...universes (The Last Love Story) and magic realism (The Island in the Mind), the thrice Booker Prize?nominated novelist has surfed genres seemingly at random. Hall is an automatic writer in the Surrealist sense, giving vent to his dark subconscious. So it hardly comes as a surprise when the author stops to admire a graffiti-scribbled wall, against which Time's photographer decides to shoot him. "The way I work, anything that looks like a plan you can be damn sure it's actually an accident," Hall says. "I love accidents. I love things taking sideswipes and the world intruding...
...August of 2005, the world intruded in a way the author could never have imagined when his house at Bermagui burned to the ground. Partly caused by a faulty gas line, the inferno spared little?"there were twisted metal things for the fridge and the gas stove," Hall recalls, "but other than that there was just nothing, just ash." While the eldest of his three daughters, the house's sole occupant at the time, escaped, part of Australia's literary heritage was not so lucky. Gone were many of Hall's slavishly hand-written manuscripts and letters, including his lifelong...
...utter them. While some critical talk probably exists behind closed doors at the presidential palace, political analysts say, free-thinking like Maza's rarely escapes high-level government circles. "It seems that if someone expresses differences in public, he immediately converts himself into a traitor," said Alberto Barrera, co-author of an acclaimed biography of Chavez. "It must not be easy to work with Chavez because he's a very egocentric person. More than collaborators, he wants devotees...