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...fears the worst. "They don't have any deep ingrained ties to Britain," he says. "If the economic climate changes, they'll go somewhere else. I say let them do what they do. Because you'll be sorry if they're not there." Unless, of course, you have your eye on an eight-bedroom town house in Kensington...
...stories from Desbois' witnesses have been eye-opening for younger Ukrainians too. Under the Soviet Union, the official line was that World War II was a battle between communists and fascists. The Nazis' "Final Solution" program to exterminate Jews was rarely mentioned. And although Holocaust teaching is now officially on the syllabus of Ukrainian schools, many of the nation's youth remain ignorant of what their grandparents lived through...
...official German and Soviet archives; about 16 million pages of Soviet reports are now housed in the Holocaust Memorial Museum. But Desbois has taken Holocaust research in a new direction. As he sees it, his work is more like "a police investigation," in which he tracks down eye witnesses, cross-checks their stories, and hunts for graves and bullet shells. The resulting voices of hundreds of witnesses provide a window into how a well-organized genocide could occur in these Ukrainian communities with no one choosing, or able, to stop it. That provokes profound questions about culpability and powerlessness...
...mistaken, however, to reduce her eccentricities to a life of temerity and scandal. Beauvoir inspired millions of women through conferences on her magnum opus, The Second Sex. Her encyclopedic letters to Sartre shaped his thought on existentialism, while her fiction earned global acclaim. And away from the public eye, headstrong Simone hid a surprisingly tender woman. To her beloved in Chicago, the anti-chauvinist crusader sent adoring letters that sometimes smacked of anti-feminist submission. And Beauvoir always kept her body to herself: she hid her hair under a turban, her legs in flowing mismatched skirts, her aging chest...
...terrible things and now they're searching for some sort of redemption. The redemption is usually not very big. It's not like, 'oh, I'm really a great guy .' For me [in Michael Clayton], we decided I just wanted to get my kid to look me in the eye...