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The Breakfast Table :
An e-mail conversation about the news of the day.
Zoë Heller and James Wolcott
Entry 19:
Dear Zoë,
What I meant was that what I saw in her eyes--and slumping, depleted posture--was psychological desolation rather than evil. A jury will decide her fate, but should she be found guilty, I still think she should be spared the death penalty.
As I type, MSNBC is doing an exclusive interview with a mother who was booted for breastfeeding her baby at Kmart: "The woman told me to put my breast away." And deeper down the tubes cable news goes.
Jim
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Zoë Heller is a columnist for the London Daily Telegraph and author of the novelEverything You Know. James Wolcott is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and author of the novelThe Catsitters.