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ROCKLAND — The Medomak Valley and Oceanside varsity baseball teams squared off for a regular season finale showdown Wednesday, June 2 in Rockland. The visiting Panthers walked away with an 8-1 victory leading both teams to finish the regular season...
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When compassion disappears Author: Chris Leary Boy A (Channel 4) Who could forget the murder of James Bulger by two teenage boys, Jon Venables and Roger Thompson? That was Liverpool 1993. After they were released from jail, Venables and Thompson were given new identities and injunctions were taken out to protect them from reprisals. Blake Morrison wrote a fantastic and scrupulously objective book about the case. As If, told the story of the media and public hysteria of the time. Boy A, shown on Channel 4 (2 November), goes over the same social and emotional ground. Boy A tells the story of ...
Died April 22, 2021 FOR the best part of seven decades Anthony Thwaite, who has died aged 90, swam serenely through the piranha-rich waters of literary London. His curriculum vitae included spells as literary editor of the Listener, the New Statesman and Encounter. He was a familiar voice on the BBC, where he was a producer for five years, chairman of the Booker Prize in 1986 (when the winner was Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils), a stalwart of Arts Council committees and a regular guest on British Council foreign tours. Quintessentially English, he wrote poetry that was witty, lucid ...
The Iceberg) grapple with this question of how grief threatens to obliterate language and erase the boundaries of selfhood and of time. The dead are not gone; time has ceased and time continues; the relationship is not over. Hisham Matar writes in his intensely moving requiem for his father, The Return, that âmy father is both dead and alive. I do not have a grammar for him. He is in the past, present and future.â In her slender, anguished meditation on the loss of her father, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie immediately confronts the painful difficulty of expressing âgriefâs cor...