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...This attitude is reminiscent of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s character Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, whose lover wants her to visit Palermo. He asks how she can possibly live without seeing it, to which Sabina responds, “I have seen Palermo. A friend of mine once sent me a postcard from there. It's taped up over the toilet...
...possible to be a “Dallasite” without having lived in Dallas for all that long, just as it is possible to live in Dallas for a lifetime without anyone extending that invitation...
...nation's deadliest uprising took place over four days at upstate New York's Attica Correctional Facility in 1971. More than 1,000 prisoners rebelled, holding dozens of guards hostage and issuing a series of demands to improve living conditions (prisoners were reportedly allowed only one shower per week and one toilet-paper roll per month). After negotiations broke down, authorities forcibly retook the facility, using tear gas and live ammunition. The violence killed 32 inmates and 11 guards. (Decades later, New York State awarded millions in damages to surviving inmates who said they were mistreated following the insurrection...
...When I found out I was terminal, I knew there was one thing I had to do: protect my children," Picat said in a March interview with TV channel TF1. "I needed to be sure they'd be able to live normally...
...choice of who took care of her children wasn't hers - French social services would have to handle their placement. They also noted that even if social workers approved the foster home Picat selected, that home could take only three children, meaning one of her children would have to live somewhere else. (Read "Why American Cancer Deaths Are Rising...