mcguinness says. let us collapse to inexorable distance between me and prison relics from ourselves, that he has served time. his letters allow me to think of the prisons architecture as defined by words that escape still the details haunt in a letter where mcguinness talks about his appeal has been exhausted, he writes i apologize for not being able to write you a more gracious letter. prison snuffs out light. this is what i know from a cell. you begin writing about your troubles, realize the burden of your words. and so you hold back. mcguinness letters came to me nearly a decade after they were written. he was already dead. they made me how much? i held back. all the pain and anguish. his letters came before i decided to go to law school. i could possibly understand their legal what it means to be sentenced to die for a crime you committed as a teenager. on the last class, professor bray played a video of steve earle's listening one oh have become a correction officer in a texas state prison before

in west belfast, he frequently met martin mcguinness and other senior ira figures.die scappaticci would come in and hang about the press centre before heading on round to wherever northern command has theirs. the meetings gave scappaticci an extraordinary insight into the structure of the ira's northern command. freddie scappaticci was not the only well—placed long—running agent within the ira. but what marks his double life apart from others is that we know some of what he was never held accountable for, remarkably from another spy in the ira, sandy lynch. in the room where sandy lynch was being interrogated, scappaticci upped the ante. he said, "do you know who i am, sandy?" i said, "yes." he said, "you know me, but i don't give two bleep "because where you're going, you'll not be telling no—one." when he was speaking to me, he stood with his elbows on my shoulders and his chin on my head. and then scappaticci spoke ofjoe fenton, who'd been shot dead only months earlier. he said, "you'll get it like fenton." he said that he had done it. according to sandy lynch, a

in west belfast, he frequently met martin mcguinness and other senior ira figures.paticci would come in and hang about the press centre before heading on round to wherever northern command has theirs. the meetings gave scappaticci an extraordinary insight into the structure of the ira's northern command. freddie scappaticci was not the only well—placed long—running agent within the ira. but what marks his double life apart from others is that we know some of what he was never held accountable for, remarkably from another spy in the ira, sandy lynch. in the room where sandy lynch was being interrogated, scappaticci upped the ante. he said, "do you know who i am, sandy?" i said, "yes." he said, "you know me, but i don't give two "because where you're going, you'll not be telling no—one." when he was speaking to me, he stood with his elbows on my shoulders and his chin on my head. and then scappaticci spoke ofjoe fenton, who'd been shot dead only months earlier. he said, "you'll get it like fenton." he said that he had done it. according to sandy lynch, an admission fr

civil war when cambodia was isolated and impoverished, and started as the world does big yard de mcguinness smart and pugnacious, prone to outrageous comments. —— the world's youngest prime minister in 1985. he was banned from facebook over comments he made earlier this year. he has allowed enormous amounts of wealth to be committed by people around him. he is very rich himself. he is intolerant of criticism. he is one of asia's great survivors. it is getting on in years. he has the problem that all autocrats have, he has eliminated so much power, he is worried about what happens to him when he lets go, which is why he wants his own son to take over. a lot of people around him, ministers and so on, handing onto their sons. he has created a dynasty here. as long as the economy is going a lot of people put up with that but cambodia is vulnerable to global changes, dependent on tourism and trade. if it goes bad, his son, who is untested, may find it difficult to deal with the dissatisfactions of the cambodian people. fin dissatisfactions of the cambodian people. dissatisfactions of the cambodia

mcguinness gate list. they were part of your efforts to get justice for sergei magnitsky. they're not just sanctioned by the united states but by canada, by the uk, by australia. and so you've got a situation where switzerland is not only planning on returning money to criminals, but they are returning money to people who are sanctioned by the united states. and our allies. and it is not only outrageous and they're doing that, but they're doing that in time of war, where russia launched this unprovoked aggressive invasion, murderous invasion of ukraine. so we have psalm supplies to the swiss prosecutor, the new prosecutor, to stop this miscarriage of justice. and their response was to kick us off the case, and say that we were not the victims. it was just the russian government was the victims. when we went to court to share the information about the corruption with the court, the court said we cannot even consider it because the swiss prosecutor has said you are not a victim. you have no standing. and as a result, we fruitfully affirm the decision of senator wicker, as he

mcguinness gate list. they were part of your efforts to get justice for sergei magnitsky. they're not just sanctioned by the united states but by canada, by the uk, by australia. and so you've got a situation where switzerland is not only planning on returning money to criminals, but they are returning money to people who are sanctioned by the united states. and our allies. and it is not only outrageous and they're doing that, but they're doing that in time of war, where russia launched this unprovoked aggressive invasion, murderous invasion of ukraine. so we have psalm supplies to the swiss prosecutor, the new prosecutor, to stop this miscarriage of justice. and their response was to kick us off the case, and say that we were not the victims. it was just the russian government was the victims. when we went to court to share the information about the corruption with the court, the court said we cannot even consider it because the swiss prosecutor has said you are not a victim. you have no standing. and as a result, we fruitfully affirm the decision of senator wicker, as he

intense walk through lane because all the parties that we had talked to gerry adams and lauren mcguinness is gone now trimble is gone. john hume's gone. but their legacy is is still much part of that room. and to see all of the parties that we're negotiating and it's a different a few of them are still around, but largely it's women and youth taking over a lot of vibrancy, walking around the youth call them peace babies or anyone is born after 1998, doesn't know the war and yeah, i heard about that from my parents and that would never happen here, which is extraordinary. so was just one of the most extraordinary three day conference with george mitchell who's been battling the qui mia came and gave this if you haven't watched this speech the 25th anniversary at queen's was a three day extravaganza of the most extraordinary conference i have ever to and i've been to a lot of conferences over the top. but watch george mitchell's tour de force of 45 minutes to the audience. it's it's it's the most moving extraordinary speech and i'll just say that the the example of northern ireland, i think

joining us now senior reporter for propublica alec mcguinness new reporting shedding light on one virginiairst of all, how severe is the learning loss? can you characterize that more for us? what are the options they're looking at? >> they're learning loss there was especially severe. in fact they were close the entirety of the 2021 school year the longest closure of the entire state of virginia and the entire country. the school was close for 18 months. they left in march 20th and come back until september 21. not surprisingly the test courts have fallen even more there than in other cities around the country. there is a pretty strong correlation between the length of closures school building closures between the 21 school year and the extent of the losses. they are aware of this in richmond. they are really very worried about it, as they should be. what they have came up with as a solution is to somehow extend the school year to add instructional time to the year to make up that lost time. a lot of researchers say that is really the best possible solution. trying to add back more time. e