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Although it is not really Alice's fault, she loses track of Theresa's youngest daughter, who runs unaccompanied to the nearby lake and falls in trying to swim. When Alice eventually tracks the girl down, she is unconscious in the water and dies later that night. The traumatic event creates a difficult and emotional tension between Alice and Theresa, and also threatens the trust Alice needs to effectively care for the town's children as school nurse. That trust is broken completely when child abuse charges are leveled against Alice by Robbie's mother...
...more like a history than like a set of thoughts. It relies on analysis, the ordering of events, cause and effect. Wiesel worries about saying too much, and though he is powerful and compelling, he is a distant writer. His books are not emotionally intimate. This is not a fault. But we need the intimate accounts too--the people who will go further and tell us more, who will provide us with the tools to imagine the survivors as our neighbors, even after they are gone. I do not think Wiesel would disagree...
...help with the washer and dryer congestion; it's our own fault that everyone does their laundry over the weekend. I can't help with the annoyance of not having a standard issue washer-drier in each suite to match the pulp-board desk and bookshelf--unless someone you know would volunteer to buy 2000 of them to go with our new lamps...
...like to apologize to the man with whom my child was chatting the other day--the one who likes to wear a bra and panties. The whole thing was my fault, and I feel just sick about it. Not that anything truly bad happened, at least not to my 10-year-old. I suspect that the male stranger who likes to wear women's underthings suffered the most in this particular virtual encounter...
...furor created by people who have their own agenda," the cops who fired 41 9mm bullets at her son, piercing his body 19 times, would not be on trial for murder. She remained composed when another defense lawyer, Bennett Epstein, implied that the killing had been her son's fault because he somehow led four noble cops "into the no-man's land that is every police officer's nightmare." The next day, when Amadou's photo ID was flashed on a courtroom screen, she broke down and cried...