Third Estate Sunday Review

The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."

Sunday, May 05, 2013

Truest statement of the week

Iraqi authorities often report lower estimates for the number of victims of attacks for unclear reasons but April's toll is still the highest since the beginning of the year.

-- Raheem Kareem, Suadad al-Salhy, Isabel Coles and Angus MacSwan, "April bloodiest month in Iraq since 2008 - UN" (Reuters) on the United Nations figure of 712 violent deaths in Iraq for the month of April when compared to Iraq's Ministry of the Interior claim that only 245 people died from violence last month.