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...Pedro became king in 1357, he had Inês' body put on the throne and forced the country's nobles to kiss her hand. The lovers remain entombed together in the monastery in Alcobaça, but the spot in Santa Clara is a shrine to their sad, eternal love. The gracious 54-room hotel, with its fine restaurant, occupies a converted 18th century manor house owned by José Miguel Júdice, a direct descendant of Pedro and Inês. Its dark trees evoke the memory of Dona...
...read their Yiddish? And so these Yizkor (or memory) books--written as requiems to entire Jewish communities extinguished by World War II--were nearly forgotten. After all, few of the Holocaust survivors who memorialized the dead were professional writers. The more than 1,200 texts they wrote chronicle the sad years of genocide and often the decades, even centuries, before. Their accounts, typically printed in limited press runs, adapted a Jewish tradition from the late 13th century of recording pogrom victims...
...moment, try to understand, cowboys and cowgirls, that you’re actually worth a lot more than what our sad sexual culture is trying to sell you out for,” he wrote. “No matter how you cut it, crop it, light it, or shade it, whether you publish it, print it, or just pick it up and read it, exploitation is still a denial of anyone’s, and everyone’s, dignity...
...Every one of them has been a contributor. So it’s sad, because we’re going to miss them totally, but in terms of their contributions to the program, it’s like their places are firmly established [by] what they’ve done...
Three years on, Byrne has taken Irina's character to heart. "So sad," she says, recalling Chekhov's play. As are her dark eyes, which appear huge and heavy on this unseasonally wintry Sydney morning. And Byrne hasn't stopped working. Cast as the love interest in what seemed like every Australian movie last year (in fact, only three), internationally her star's on the rise. "But Star Wars was a really small part!" protests Byrne, who played teary handmaiden Dorm? to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in 2002's Attack of the Clones. "I feel flattered that you bring...