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[ad_1] ROME – Photographer Letizia Battaglia, who recorded years of the blood of the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, Italy, with devastating images that have settled into the national consciousness, died Wednesday at her home in Palermo. She was 87 years old. His daughter Patrizia Stagnitta confirmed his death but did not specify the cause. “Mario …
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[ad_1] HIGH INTELLIGENCEThe Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britainby Simon Heffer Writing during the Second World War, George Orwell drew attention to the contrast between the “softness” that characterized contemporary British civilization and the “brutality” that characterized British life a hundred years ago. Though not mentioned in Orwell’s “Higher Minds,” the transformation he grasped …
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[ad_1] They lived with the nanny for another five years until she died. Anna and Jane refused to go to his funeral. For years they tried to convince their parents what it was like for them, and they never quite believed it. Campion describes his parents as loving but fundamentally lacking in his childhood. The …
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[ad_1] Four years ago, Ashley Lyle Read an article about a planned remake of William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” the 1954 crazy kids classic about prep school boys stranded on an island. this version sex swap girls for boys. Lyle, a writer and producer, read the comments and many suspected that the girls would …