She was a very generous, serious and thoughtful critic and arts reporter. She didn't write like anybody else. She had such a personal voice. She wrote novels, too, which most people don't know. They're not published, but what really struck me about them were her powers of describing landscapes and plants, this extraordinary sensitivity to natural beauty.

She's very smart and she's been able to do things. She's got friends here and a job cleaning buildings so she could do it, but she's scared. I want to help her get back to a more independent situation.

James has become, in effect, an 'apostle' of the free market, selling Third World governments a vision of boundless riches that comes from Western-style economic development. The free market gospel America preaches today is like the Christian gospel the Spanish friars preached in the New World. It cloaks a brutal pursuit of national economic self-interest.

Is it selfish to be proud or rather senseless not to pursue such a mental state. Simple.... What makes you proud?

I was overwhelmed with him. Not only his story but how he told it. He's such a thoughtful, intellectual, moving person.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.