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“White Plains police are going to kill me.”
The voice on the tape sounds disturbed: “I’m a 68-year-old man with a heart condition, why are you doing this to me?” Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. fought in the Vietnam war, as a Marine. But on November 19, 2011, as police officers refused to leave his doorstep, he feared for his life.
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Standing on the corrugated steel deck that will be the 88th floor, the lateral movement is disconcerting, the feeling more like seasickness than vertigo, until you look down.
Either this is the scene of an energy revolution with the potential to dramatically reduce the USA’s dependence on foreign oil, or an unfolding environmental catastrophe.
Advocacy groups estimate that at least 1,500 veterans from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are sleeping rough in America’s cities. Have the lessons of Vietnam been learned?
“The idea is immortal, it is without class and it doesn’t care anything about wealth,” he says. ” I could get my horn and play for you, and believe me, I would play something.”
Kurt Vonnegut is dwelling on the apocalypse. For the third time over lunch America’s funniest and most pessimistic novelist is explaining why he will welcome the end of the world.
The phone rings. Would I mind if he takes it? His daughter in California is worried about forest fires. “Well how far away is the smoke? I’ll buy you another house if it burns down, honey, OK?”
Andrew Purcell
I'm a British freelance journalist based in New York. My principal clients are the Sunday Herald (Scotland), the Guardian, BBC World Service radio, and the Sun-Herald (Australia). For a complete list of contents, click here.
