ITEM:I've just posted a seven-minuteYouTube video, based on the book's introduction, explaining why it needed to be written and how I came to be so obsessed with these gory, fascinating songs in the first place. Watch ithere, and please share the link with your friends. ...
I left New York when I was pregnant with my son as I fell extremely ill and needed my mother. I arrived back in a wheelchair with just an overnight bag. It wasn’t my intention to leave New York for good but this turned out to be another time when my life changed direction. Even ...
It was grand. It wasn’t easy and my lungs certainly got a shock but it was manageable. I knew that I could stop if I needed to, and rather than stopping the second I wanted to, I found myself challenging myself to get to the next corner/lamppost/dog-walker instead. I brought Sa...
Trinidad’s first female Prime Minister, served for two terms. She brought in much needed highways, founded a children’s hospital and also a university in the southern part of the country. She had served as the country’s Education Minister. During her time as PM she made it possible for...
He was recruited by Gulfstream Aerospace when the then-privately held company needed topilotsales of its new ultra-long-range Gulfstream V. His position was to oversee global marketing and communications. Traditional PR and advertising, which had focused in previous attempts on pilots about the tech...
in Fremont. I said I wanted to wait and see my doctor. They said he would not be there until morning, and they would prep me for surgery. The frosty nurse gave me some very ineffective pills to swallow with so little water that I almost choked. Where was Ayahuasca when I needed her...
In 2006, Roberts jumped ship from The New Yorker to join Vanity Fair as fashion and style director, causing a masthead shake-up and reshoots if needed. With the right instincts and the right taste level, Roberts was considered a primo choice for the magazine. When a potential cover shot ...
Northampton is proof, if it was needed, that homelessness is at a crisis point in the UK. Until now no official body has kept count of the number of people dying while homeless, butnew researchby the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in collaboration with charities and groups, and writers ...
of the investigation is like a horde of cockroaches that scatters when you turn on the light or lift up the rug. There is no sudden horrific epiphany or silver bullet, just confirmations of what these people had already figured out for themselves but needed proof of to include in the ...
They may view a solution to the conflict as a strategy to gain needed backing from the United States for their security concerns. Increasingly, European and Israeli top officials have criticized the intransigence of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. This week, the EU released a harsh rebuke of ...